Saturday, July 9, 2011

SHP2SDO meet GeoRaptor!

To any who are developing with Oracle Spatial and want something more than shp2sdo to load spatial data into Oracle.
GeoRaptor  (http://sourceforge.net/projects/georaptor/)

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Property Data Automation

What kind of GIS data automation can benefit a County Property Appraiser if any?  Is it true that most developers have to submit some form of electronic documentation of their surveyed land?  i understand that most survey data will not line up with hand digitized GIS data from ages past. If there was some form of automation with built-in spatial intelligence to assist a mapper to include the survey, would that not greatly improve the productivity of the county mapper?

I am very interested in creating some tools as a python toolbox and maybe convert that into some Oracle Spatial utilities for use in larger organizations.  I am of the mind set that if a solid base line dataset can be made available and agreed upon by the local agency then why couldn't a system accept geometry from nearly any GIS source and perform spatial tests based on the agency's business rules to assist in the keeping the tax information up-to-date.

Just a thought and something I am actually working on for a state agency.  I will keep thinking out loud until something sticks...