{"id":122512,"date":"2019-02-06T15:49:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T23:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=arcuser&p=122512"},"modified":"2024-08-21T11:26:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T18:26:22","slug":"land-records-search-simplified","status":"publish","type":"arcuser","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/land-records-search-simplified","title":{"rendered":"Land Records Search Simplified"},"author":1432,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10392,260002,401],"tags":[311,581,134972,1691,711],"arcuser_issues":[126702],"class_list":["post-122512","arcuser","type-arcuser","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arcgis-online","category-data-management","category-government","tag-data-driven","tag-digital-transformation","tag-land-management","tag-situational-awareness","tag-smart-cities","arcuser_issues-fall-2015"],"acf":{"short_description":"The County of Riverside, California, has made land records investigation much less complicated and far more sustainable by replacing less effici\u2026","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"The County of Riverside, California, has made land records investigation much less complicated and far more sustainable by replacing less efficient methods with a GIS-centric approach that uses ArcGIS Online.<\/em>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":122522,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"The County Surveyor's office maintains Riverside's land records. These records include\u2014but are not limited to\u2014corner records\u00a0[records documenting the placement of survey monuments]<\/em>, survey records, final parcel and tract maps, field notes, benchmarks, horizontal control, right-of-way records (such as vacations, street name changes, dedications), unrecorded maps (such as plans and right-of-way maps), and certificates of correction.\r\n\r\nThese records have been made available to the public via microfilm, Mylar, and paper. Survey staff wrote the physical records by hand and filed records in large-scale counter books or hanging files. While these records are still available, they have not been updated in more than a decade.\r\n\r\nThe County Surveyor developed a tool called Map Inquiry for searching these records that returned a list of values based on how the original data was entered into the system. Typically, that data was entered by map number, project number, or street name or used the Public Land Survey System (PLSS) and was identified by township, range, and section. An individual section will touch a minimum of four other sections that will be included in the results and require examination of each returned document."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":122532,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"In 2009, that system was retired and replaced by an online scanned repository system called Laserfiche. Laserfiche allows for querying the above-mentioned information using a variety of search terms such as street intersection; project number; map number; or section, township, and range. Although a much more user-friendly system that retrieves all the information related to search criteria entered and allows review of the documents, it's still a record-by-record search and, thus, inefficient.\r\n\r\nRiverside County has a long history as an Esri software user, starting with ARC\/INFO in the 1980s and transitioning to ArcGIS in 2000. The county stores point, line, polygon, and raster data in a versioned geodatabase using ArcGIS for Server. In addition to centralizing all the records, ArcGIS for Server allows multiple users to simultaneously edit layers in the geodatabase. The county began publishing web maps and apps using ArcGIS Online, which allowed the county to launch services quickly and keep information updated.\r\n\r\nThe County Surveyor's office manages and maintains the following layers in the geodatabase:\r\n