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Thank you everyone for attending!  Here's the recording of the latest MeetUp In this presentation we’ll hear about the largest County in Alabama, and how their Tax Assessor’s office completely modernized updated their tax system using ArcGIS. This involved the adoption of the ArcGIS Parcel Fabric, as well as a County-wide remap of all 320,000 parcels . The end result of the project was a vast improvement on the quality of tax information made available to the public, as well as data sharing with the County’s largest cities. Speaker Bio's Lisa Myhand -- IT Project Manager Lisa holds a computer science degree and a master’s in business administration from the University of Alabama Birmingham as well as a certification in Project Management (PMP). She has over 25 years’ experience working in the Information Technology field with the last 15 years in Tax Assessment and Collections for Alabama’s largest county, Jefferson. Lisa recently led the successful Tax Maps Conversion project to redraw the County’s over 1 million parcel lines and convert to ESRI’s parcel fabric. Joshua Chris -- GISP Josh is the Enterprise GIS Manager for the Jefferson County Commission in Birmingham, AL. In this role Joshua is responsible for managing the GIS infrastructure including servers, licensing, web mapping applications, critical application integration, and managing GIS projects. Additionally, Joshua serves as the executive director for the Jefferson County GIS Consortium which a partnership comprised of thirteen organizations across Jefferson County that collaborate to collect and share data and costs for data collection including annual acquisition of high resolution orthophotography. Joshua also currently serves as President of the GIS Association of Alabama, a non-profit committed to promoting GIS and geography education throughout the state. Prior to this role Joshua served as the Director of Engineering Services and Project Management for 3-GIS in Decatur, AL. Previously worked as a GIS Project Manager for KAYA Associates, Inc. in Huntsville, AL. Gaynell Hendricks -- Tax Assessor In 2008, Gaynell Hendricks was elected the first African American and Woman Tax Assessor of Jefferson County where she serves to date. In this role, Hendricks has been credited with automating processes, streamlining procedures, and educating citizens on benefits and legislative change. Most recently, Ms. Hendricks led a mapping project for Jefferson County, the largest of its kind in the United States. Deeply involved in her community, Hendricks on various boards and agencies throughout the state, including the Birmingham Zoo, Alys Stephens Center, and The Birmingham International Airport Board where she notably chaired the Board during a transformative $300 million terminal modernization. Van O’Brien -- Sidwell Senior GIS Analyst and chief parcel fabric guru, who worked with Jefferson County throughout this project. ... View more

Thank everyone for attending!  Here is the recording of the MeetUp - Barbados -- An Island Modernized, presented by Heather Campbell from our Parcel Management Specialty Business Partner Silvacom. Creating a parcel Fabric from the Ground Up. Provide valuable lessons gleaned from creating the Barbados Parcel fabric utilizing ArcGIS Pro and share some recommendations for parcel management. About Heather: Heather Campbell is a GIS Technician at MNC Ltd. She has been with MNC since 2015. Heather specializes in working with the ArcGIS Pro Parcel Fabric and ArcGIS Online apps. She is also skilled in the areas of data model design, quality control, documentation, training, team leadership for mapping projects, and project management. Be sure to sign up to our MeetUp to be alerted regarding all our upcoming meetups:  https://www.meetup.com/esri-parcel-fabric-meet-up/ We look forward to seeing you all again at our next MeetUp at the end of the month.   ... View more

Hello we've got another migration video ready to go.  In this 2Torial (a quick 2 minute tutorial) we will see how easy it is to upgrade from your existing ArcMap Parcel Fabric to ArcGIS Pro.  You can upgrade by running one simple geoprocessing tool and be ready to start editing parcel data in ArcGIS Pro.  You original ArcMap Fabric will not be altered in any way by running this tool as it creates a new parcel fabric in Pro and copies the data over. Here are some helpful links:  Upgrade An ArcMap Parcel Fabric  ... View more

Hey everyone! With migration being a key topic this year I thought we will release a couple Parcel Fabric 2Torials centered around migration.  This 2torial (a 2 minute tutorial) focuses on migrating to the parcel fabric from a shapefile (or any polygon feature class will work in this process).  I know there is a lot of content in this video so as always please check out all the links below for more information Here are links for more information to help you migrate your parcel data into the Parcel Fabric! Append data to the parcel fabric  Create Parcel Fabric  Parcel Types  Workflow - Create parcel fabric and load data  Simplify Straight Lines and Circular Arcs  Create Parcel Records  Build Parcels  ... View more

Hey everyone, Just wanted to remind everyone of two of our upcoming online meetups scheduled for the month of June! They will be focusing on user stories centered around the Parcel Fabric and Land Records.  Click the links below to register so you can join in watching live.  You can ask questions directly to the presenters and interact with other members of the parcel fabric community First up is: Barbados - An Island Modernized Tuesday, June 4, 2024 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM PDT MeetUp:  https://www.meetup.com/esri-parcel-fabric-meet-up/events/301058689/ Webinar Link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6836703267632755290 Please join us in welcoming Heather Campbell from our Parcel Management Specialty Business Partner Silvacom.  Creating a parcel Fabric from the Ground Up. Provide valuable lessons gleaned from creating the Barbados Parcel fabric utilizing ArcGIS Pro and share some recommendations for parcel management. Next is: Jefferson County Alabama’s GIS Transformation Tuesday, June 25, 2024 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM PDT MeetUp Link: https://www.meetup.com/esri-parcel-fabric-meet-up/events/301226076/ Webinar Link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/518144194523482709 In this presentation we’ll hear about the largest County in Alabama, and how their Tax Assessor’s office completely modernized updated their tax system using ArcGIS. This involved the adoption of the ArcGIS Parcel Fabric, as well as a County-wide remap of all 320,000 parcels . The end result of the project was a vast improvement on the quality of tax information made available to the public, as well as data sharing with the County’s largest cities. --------------------------- Please register to see these presentations live!  As always all our meetup presentations are completely free! And they will be recorded.   ... View more

It's that time of year again, it's Esri User Conference time! And we are happy to announce that our annual parcel fabric social will be hosted by Sidwell! It will be located at Soleil @K (660 K St, San Diego, CA 92101) located in the heart of downtown San Diego mere blocks from the convention center. If you are interested in going please fill out this brief survey: https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/1a08630e2d11451dad803c2d3093a209 Once you've completed the survey you're almost set, just come by either the Sidwell booth or the Land Records booth in the Exhibit Hall in the convention center and get your wrist band! That's it! Now you're ready to enjoy food and drink while chatting with fellow land records enthusiasts from all across the world! Join members of the Sidwell team and the Esri Parcel team for a fun evening! We look forward to seeing you all this summer in beautiful San Diego! More information can be found here: Our gracious host Sidwell: https://www.sidwellco.com/ UC 2024 Land Records/Cadastre Sessions and Activities Flier: https://community.esri.com/t5/user-conference-documents/land-records-cadastre-sessions-and-activities-uc24/ta-p/1474238 Esri User Conference 2024: https://www.esri.com/en-us/about/events/uc/overview ... View more