UW Geographic Information Service at the School of Forest Resources

As of today, we have acquired data from 35 of 39 counties. Data from 34 counties has been reviewed. 14 counties have been normalized. Garfield, Ferry, and Skamania counties now have GIS parcels. Wahkiakum and Columbia counties are unable to participate due to technical issues, but their data may be available in the future.

The Parcels Working Group Technical Sub-Committee met on July 15, 2009, to discuss changes to the database format.  Suggestions and comments we’ve received about field names, attribute domains, data types, unique identifiers and various other technical issues were addressed.  The updated format is being implemented for the 2009 version of the database.

In the middle of  May we contacted Washington’s 39 counties to begin collecting the data for the next round of the Washington State Parcel Database.  Development is well underway.

In April, we spent two days at Safe Software’s headquartes in Surrey, BC, attending an FME training.  As we continue to develop the Washington State Parcel Database detecting changes in the parcel data from different dates will be a central component.  We believe FME is the tool to use to detect and understand these changes in parcel geometry and attributes.