The vision of the Idaho geospatial community, embodied in the Idaho Geographic Committee (IGC) and it’s Technical Working Groups, is to develop a statewide parcels base map that is:

• Mutually beneficial to both the data producers and the data consumers
• Seamless
• Secure/Appropriately Shared,
• Digital
• Publicly accessible with geometry and core attributes
• Continually maintained
• Supports a multi-purpose land information system
• Standards based
• Will continue to be improved over time.

Goals and Objectives

· Coordinate mapping efforts with local government mapping groups;

· Identify and communicate the benefits of accurate parcel databases for all stakeholders (public and private);

· Identify and promote the benefits of sharing parcel information;

· Describe the current status of parcel databases across the state at all levels of government;

· Document what has been shown to be possible at a local, regional, and state level, using examples of successful systems;

· Provide a vision of what could be possible statewide, and identify a strategy to achieve the vision, including the role of the public agencies;

· Review existing statutes and administrative rules;

· Promote legislation and public policy to support the vision;

· Adopt a tiered, statewide publication data standard;

· Develop a data model for a statewide land parcel layer;

· Develop an integration method for a statewide land parcel layer

· Account for challenges that must be overcome;

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