The Franklin County Auditor‘s Geographic Information System (GIS) was introduced in February 1987 and has evolved into a set of geospatial technologies that the office uses to answer complex geographic questions.
The purpose of an auditor’s GIS is to create a single source of digital data containing cartographic and tabular information captured from an accurate base map.
Franklin County Auditor’s: Geospatial Technologies
The large and time-consuming task of evaluating each of the county’s 430,000 properties is an ongoing process that requires comprehensive information management capabilities provided by multiple geospatial technologies managed by the auditor’s office.
These geospatial technologies improve the assessment process by significantly expanding the auditor’s ability to store, retrieve, inventory, and analyze information, ultimately resulting in tax offsets for Franklin County taxpayers.
The public can access the same technologies in several ways, but the most important is through the Auditor’s property search website, where users can access current and complete maps and tabulated information for all properties in the municipality, as well as a complete library of aerial images. photographs. from the early 2000s and our interactive street photography known as StreetSmart.
Although the main objective of these technologies is to assist in the valuation of properties, the number of possible uses exceeds the main role of the appraiser. Many datasets used by the comptroller’s staff are available for download nightly and can be used by other county agencies, local governments, the private sector, and citizens.
GIS PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
Although the property search website is the auditor’s main public application, the office also offers other products and services to government agencies, the private sector, and the general public. These offerings include aerial photography (spelling), general real estate photography, and custom mapping services. Data is retrieved nightly and updated for each of our application offerings, allowing our customers to access up-to-date information in a variety of formats.