Parcels and Land Records Committee

The Parcels and Land Records Committee of the Minnesota Geospatial Advisory Council works to promote research, education, implementation, and distribution of statewide guidelines surrounding the digital mapping of cadastral-related data; works to promote and facilitate the development and sharing of data throughout the state, region, and nation; and advises MnGeo.

* formerly the Digital Cadastral Data Committee and the Land Records Modernization Committee

Featured

Parcel Data Standard for Minnesota

Committee Leadership, Charter, Accomplishments and Workplan

Chair: Preston Dowell, St. Louis County, 218-742-9824, dowellp@stlouiscountymn.gov
- Contact the committee chair for meeting information. All meetings are open to the public.
Charter
2019 Accomplishments and 2020 Work Plan

Committee Activity Reports and Meeting Minutes

Handouts (Meeting minutes are in the scroll list below.)
- June 7, 2013
  - PRIA annual meeting announcement
- April 5, 2013
  - Notes on Comparison of DCDATS to PRISM (505K, 7 p., pdf)
- August 3, 2012
- February 3, 2012
  - External SDE Access User Guide for St. Louis County (808K, 2 p., pdf)
- December 2, 2011
  - overview of the parcel business plan
- August 5, 2011
  - Funded Grant Proposal: Business Plan for Statewide Parcel Data Integration for Minnesota
- April 1, 2011
  - presentation (33 slides, 2.3 MB, pptx) The Minnesota Geospatial Commons is Coming!, Mark Kotz
- February 11, 2011
  - A Business Plan for Statewide Parcel Data Integration for Minnesota
- December 3, 2010
  - presentation (15 slides, 4.8 MB, ppt) How Standards are Created, Chris Cialek
  - presentation (22 slides, 553K, ppt) Measuring Public Value Creation of Geospatial Commons, Randy Johnson
- April 16, 2010
  - presentation (10 slides, 10.7 MB, ppt), Mark Monacelli
  - presentation (26 slides, 7.2 MB, ppt), John Hoshal
- December 4, 2009
  - presentation (18 slides, 170K, ppt), Mark Kotz
  - presentation (6 slides, 1 MB, ppt), Curt Carlson
  - spreadsheet (43K, Excel), Curt Carlson
Committee activity reports: See the Committee Reports webpage for activities from 2006 - May 2009.
Committee meeting minutes: Click on a meeting date to view the minutes for that meeting (minutes after November 6, 2003 are in PDF format). Scroll through the list for older meeting dates that are not displayed (minutes for January 2003 and October and November 2002 are not available).

Publications and Links

The Parcels and Land Records Committee does not endorse any commercial products which may appear in files referenced here. All information is provided for educational purposes only.

Minnesota

Business Plan for Statewide Parcel Data Integration for Minnesota, a 2011 Federal Geographic Data Committee CAP grant to MnGeo and collaborating organizations.
PRISM project: The Minnesota Department of Revenue modernized its Property Tax data processes and systems by developing a centralized database that standardized the collection, storage, retrieval, and distribution of property data.
Minnesota Cadastral I-Plan draft v. 1.2, February 2003
Quick Access to Land Records: Cadastral and Right of Way Data Sharing Pilot Project, Feb. 18, 2009. MnDOT pilot project
Land Records Modernization Committee Report, June 1999, to the Minnesota Governor's Council on Geographic Information.
Implementation Guide for Parcel-Based GIS in Minnesota Local Government, November 1997. This is a "blueprint" resource, to be used by local units of government, for successful implementation of parcel-based GIS in Minnesota.
Identifying Land Parcels: Is a Statewide Standard Needed?, September 1997: Examines parcel identification numbers used by Minnesota's 87 counties and the need for a standardized statewide format.
LCMR Lakeshore Proposal
- Also view an article that describes the need for lakeshore parcel mapping to support effective long-term lake management.

National

Issues Regarding a National Land Parcel Database, Congressional Research Service, July 2009.
National Land Parcel Data: A Vision for the Future, National Research Council, 2007.

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