OGInfo.com, LLC, (OGI) a Texas Geographic Information Systems (GIS) services and products company, has completed all GIS mapping services for the McMullen County Appraisal District. OGI utilized their team of GIS Professionals and Data Specialists to map the county using state-of-the-art computer aided mapping, historical cartography and geo-rectified satellite imagery. This specialized process has produced an extremely accurate and up-to-date digital map. To produce this map our team worked diligently converting raster images (scans of paper maps or existing color aerial photography) into digital vector drawings. In this case, there was not a whole lot of data to start with. This process involved creating a starting point from the close examination of deeds and acreage from county tax rolls. The combination of these tasks and the integration of specialized web-based mapping technology help create for the appraisal district of McMullen County

Their new interactive online map allows appraisal district personnel to search and browse high-accuracy land data and geo-rectified aerial images over the entire county. This user-friendly map displays roads, parcel lines, abstracts, water bodies, aerial imagery, NexRad radar, 10m DEMs(topographical lines) and school districts. This map will enable all officials of McMullen County Appraisal District to check the appraisal value of property, identify names and addresses of all property owners and identify all jurisdictional boundaries. The systems and data provided by OGI have also enabled the appraisal district office to improve response time, to information requests from the public with increased accuracy.

OGI is located in Corpus Christi, Texas and provides comprehensive mapping services to local, state and federal government along with all sectors of the conventional and renewable energy business. OGI is a leading provider of high quality digital maps as well as a variety of other GIS products, services and software applications. OGI was awarded the Bee County Appraisal District GIS project in October of 2008.

To view other county maps produced by OGIgov(a sister company of OGInfo.com LLC) click here.For additional information on the work being done by OGInfo.com, please contact us at 361-904-0071 or visit www.oginfo.com.

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OGI specializes in data-rich and highly detailed maps. We have both digital, online and traditional paper maps available.  By combining our in-house data sets with field data, we can customize any map area you need. Our pipeline maps can be customized by commodity, operator or diameter.  We can also include wells and just about any other relevant map information you need.  More R.O. W. services  from OGI. Call 361-904-0071.

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OGI also specializes in data-rich and highly detailed online maps.

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• Draw Proposed Pipeline for Rod Lengths
• Retrieve Ownership Info with a Click
• Pipeline Buffer with email Permit Alerts
• Query Results Saved to Microsoft Excel
• Your Own Branded Online Portal
• No Software to Install
• Nationwide Parcel Data

To request more information by email click here or call 361-904-0071. 

OGI now has available quality data-rich wall maps and surface ownership data for one of the hottest plays in the country, the Bakken Shale. If you need surface ownership data or need a large highly detailed paper map for counties in the Bakken Shale, call 361-904-0071.

Texas & Louisianna Shale Plays

OGI, the fastest growing and most innovative GIS mapping company also produces wall maps of the hottest shale plays in Texas, the Eagle Ford Shale, Haynesville Shale. These maps are zoomed in and can be customized with details such as wells (with API), pipelines, roads, water bodies, abstracts & surveys, county and city boundaries and much more (detail availability based on scale of map).
To get a "zoomed-in"detailed map of the Bakken, Eagle Ford, Haynesville or Barnett Shale or for more information on surface ownership data nationwide call 361-904-0071.

Need a Map or Surface Ownership for Eagle Ford Shale?

OGI, the fastest growing and most innovative GIS mapping company is now producing high quality, detailed wall maps of the hottest shale plays in Texas. Not only can you get an accurate and detailed Eagle Ford Shale map, the fastest moving play in Texas, but we also offer Haynesville Shale and Barnett Shale. These maps are zoomed in and can be customized with details such as wells (with API), pipelines, roads, water bodies, abstracts & surveys, county and city boundries and much more (detail availability based on scale of map). To get a "zoomed-in"detailed map of the Eagle Ford Shale or the Barnett or Haynesville Shale plays call 361-904-0071.

If you need GIS data like surface ownership parcel data for Eagle Ford Shale counties just give us a call or click here to see what counties we cover.  What counties are hot?  We've got GIS data on the following counties; McMullen, Frio, DeWitt, Karnes, Atascosa, Bee, Gonzales, Colorado, Lavaca, Live Oak, Maverick, Webb, Wilson and Zavala.

OGIgov has activated on all of its online maps powerful new print feature. You can now produce a Portable Digital File (PDF) of the exact map the you are viewing. Print the map area from the PDF and or email it. You can maximize the size of the map area by collapsing the control panel, the header and or the map task panel. Also, customize the heading on the print sheet so it is labeled appropriately. Your print out will come with a legend and a north indicating arrow. Turn on any and all layers of the map and print out exactly what you need. See parcels, abstracts and city boundaries on top of aerial imagery and print to PDF.  It's that simple. Need a question answered, call 361-904-0071 or email us. See our online county maps, click here.

GIS Pays For Itself. In
Texas, local appraisal districts are tasked with keeping track of
surface ownership, related improvements, commercial and industrial
improvements, oil and gas assets and personal property. These efforts
are all focused on market values for tax appraisal purposes. The
discussion and bullet points included with the link below are designed
to point out how the use of GIS will pay for itself. (read more)

Put Your County On The Map for only $1,800* per year. Add valuable 911 emergency and school district layers.

Save time and money by having OGIgov's specialists place your county map on the web using state-of-the-art applications for as little as $1800/yr*. Now make your county data available to taxpayers. Simplify your geospatial analysis through overlapping layers like:

• School districts


• Traffic counts


• Flood plain
  


• Zoning


• Development projects


• Call/search-before-you-dig.

Just
give OGIgov Specialists your county data, and we'll make a custom web
application with your desired layers so that people can use it for
general information or analysis. Get your county map online easier and
faster with OGIgov.


Benefits:

• Map-assisted valuations


• Reduce foot traffic when customers are directed to your map
  


• Prepare for dispute hearings


• Expand 911 Emergency Response Systems

OGIgov
web based county maps enhance your productivity, reduce your costs, and
improve your organizational efficiency. Get your county parcel data,
street data, and satellite imagery online all for one low cost of only $1800/yr*.


Call 361-904-0071 TODAY and have OGIgov put your county map online. Or email Canton Hall

Nation-wide Parcel
We've got you covered. Parcel data
lies at the core of many applications and analysis. Parcel data allows
property characteristics to be mapped and analyzed across an area of
interest. OGI's parcel data displays a wealth of information that is
associated with properties including valuations, ownership, service
areas, environmental factors, and more. Parcel data also enables
sophisticated spatial analysis such as proximity, overlay and buffer
zone operations. Numerous industries use parcel data in their daily
operations, and many are realizing new ways to enhance their
capabilities, provide additional services and reduce operating costs.

Both public and private industries
find that incorporating parcel data into their daily operations and
processes result in enhanced capabilities, additional services and
reduced operating costs.
Some of the industries that have found
parcel data to be an invaluable resource in their daily operations are
as follows:

Financial Services
  • Loan Processing
  • Tax Assignment and Determinationv
Insurance
  • Underwriting and Claims Management
  • Flood Certification
  • Risk Assessment
Retail, Restaurant and Real Estate
  • Property Information
  • Service Territories
  • Online Mapping Using Aerial Imagery
Utilities/Telecommunications
  • Asset Management
  • Right-of-Way Identification
  • Call-Before-You-Dig Applications and Automated 
  • Meter Reading Systems
Government
  • Law Enforcement
  • Homeland Security

Visit OGI's parcel data coverage to see the parcel data available. To
get more information about this data contact Canton Hall at 361-904-0071 or by e-Mail.

OGI to Map Jones County
GIS from the ground up.
OGInfo.com, LLC, (OGI) a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) services and products company has been awarded a contract to complete all GIS mapping for the Jones County Appraisal District. OGI will utilize their team of GIS Professionals and Data Specialists to electronically map the county using state-of-the-art computer aided mapping, historical cartography and geo-rectified satellite imagery.
The process is extensive and will involve going from some electronic drawings, legacy maps and legal descriptions to data conversion, scanning paper images to digital and to the deed research. Then, all digital drawings will be geo-referenced (aligned) to aerial images and parcel lines drawn to create shape files to be attached to the appraisal tax roll.  
OGI will then, using all of this newly created GIS data, design, produce and host an online county map.  This extremely accurate and up-to-date digital map will be available on the web and freely accessible around the clock. The new Jones County FastMap will be loaded with custom GIS layers like: roads, parcel lines, surveys, water bodies, pipelines, oil & gas wells, floodplains, parks, wildlife refuges, jurisdictional boundaries and city limits will be available to the public over the Internet to explore within three to six months.

This interactive map will allow users to search and browse high-accuracy land data and geo-rectified aerial images over the entire county. One of the benefits to office of the County Appraiser will be to greatly reduce the amount of foot traffic in the Jones County Appraisal District office. Free access to this map will enable all appraisal district employees and residents of Jones County to check the appraisal value of their property, identify names and addresses of other property owners and identify all jurisdictional boundaries. The systems and data provided by OGI will also enable the appraisal district office to more quickly respond with completeness and increased accuracy to information requests from the public.  This new online map will also save time and money on updates, map retrievals, acreage or irregular shape calculations, property identifications with map zoom in and up-to-date aerials.

OGI is located in Corpus Christi, Texas and provides comprehensive mapping services to local, state and federal government along with all sectors of the conventional and renewable energy business. OGI is a leading provider of high quality digital maps as well as a variety of other GIS services, products and software applications.

For more information Contact us.

We Do Updates. Is your mapping team overloaded?
OGIgov can help get that long list of splits, resurveys, deed transfers, partitions or any newly platted acreages that have needed updating for some time.  We can do this by incorporating deed reasearch, paper-to-digital and DGN/DWG data conversion. OGIgov provides a complete solution ranging from updating and printing your maps all the way to creating GIS data sets with a strong emphasis on data quality and accuracy.  Our latest updating project is with Austin county and covers changes for over two years.

Also critical to updates can be the georectification process, the aligning of parcel and other important vector lines to aerial images. OGIgov now provides its own fly-over aerial imaging services. These important oblique images can make a huge impact in not only parcel georectification but also accurate and up-to-date valuations.

OGIgov’s Local Government work includes but is not limited to:

   • Updating your maps
    • Printing your county's map
    • Creating your county’s GIS
    • Updating your GIS to incorporate any new subdivisions or property transfers
    • Paper to digital conversion
    • Data conversion
    • Georectification – alignment to aerial imagery
    • Online hosting of your county map

Call 361-904-0071 TODAY and have OGIgov put your county map online. Or email Canton Hall

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Put Your County On The Map for only $1,800* per year.

Add valuable 911 emergency and school district layers. Save time and money by having OGIgov's specialists place your county map on the web using state-of-the-art applications for as little as $1800/yr*. Now make your county data available to taxpayers. Simplify your geospatial analysis through overlapping layers like:

    • School districts
    • Traffic counts
    • Flood plain
    • Zoning
    • Development projects
    • Call/search-before-you-dig.

Just give OGIgov Specialists your county data, and we'll make a custom web application with your desired layers so that people can use it for general information or analysis. Get your county map online easier and faster with OGIgov.

Bee County FastMap online Benefits:

    • Map-assisted valuations
    • Reduce foot traffic when customers are directed to your map
    • Prepare for dispute hearings
    • Expand 911 Emergency Response Systems

OGIgov web based county maps enhance your productivity, reduce your costs, and improve your organizational efficiency. Get your county parcel data, street data, and satellite imagery online all for one low cost of only $1800/yr*.

Call 361-904-0071 TODAY and have OGIgov put your county map online. Or email Canton Hall 

Aerial Imagery in many forms is advantageous for many organizations and industries. Some of aerial photography’s uses are: checking a right-of-way, scouting a potential well site, property valuation analysis, emergency response, planning and development, etc. Regardless of uses, Orthophotography and Oblique Imagery are two types of aerial imagery used today and following is a brief description differentiating them.


An orthophoto or orthophotograph (orthagonal) is an aerial photograph, taken looking straight down, geometrically corrected ("orthorectified") such that the scale is uniform and they can be used as a map. The photo has the same lack of distortion as a map. Unlike an uncorrected aerial photograph, an orthophotograph can be used to measure true distances, because it is an accurate representation of the earth's surface, having been adjusted for topographic relief, lens distortion, and camera tilt.

Oblique Imagery is aerial photography that is captured at approximately 45 degree angle with the ground. The angle which is inherent to oblique imagery allows viewers to see and measure not only the top of objects but the sides as well. Oblique Imagery more closely resembles how people normally view their landscape compared to traditional orthagonal (straight down) imagery. The oblique photographs show buildings, infrastructure, and land from all sides.

Aerial Photography at a Glance:  OGI's collection technology supports both types of imagery with one mission. GEOVISTA® camera systems for light aircraft contain five digital cameras pointing forward, back, right, left and down. Imagery from the nadir camera can be ortho-rectified to create a seamless result meeting 1” – 50’ map accuracy with 4” pixels. In a single flight, enough imagery is captured to offer 360° viewing of 12 to 24 different oblique views of every location with a pixel resolution of 3” to 6” providing a tremendous amount of visual detail.**Ref: OGI's image partner, GEOSPAN.com

By flying the area, whether it is for a potential location, appraisal, or inspection of facilities, this procedure will eliminate “boots on the ground” in most all applications.  Think of the savings and not to mention that the safety liabilities will be all gone using this method.  No more vehicle maintenance, terrain hazards of people on foot, etc.  Scouting locations can be completed from a birds eye view, accurately and efficiently. Does your staff know what is on the other side of that entry gate, locked behind miles of game fence?  Could be a cabin, could be a mansion.  We can fly your county and give you that information.  Information concerning square footage of structures can be delivered quickly and accurately.

OGI is proud to offer aerial photography services. OGI’s customer base is mostly comprised of state and local governments, which use images of cities and or counties for planning and development, emergency response and property assessment, but the service can easily extend to insurance, real estate, civil engineering, and utilities, amongst many other industries.

“A quick study of the cost benefit model related to GIS use in county parcel data”

By, James H. Davis,
Content
OGInfo.com, LLC

February 5, 2010,

In Texas, local appraisal districts are tasked with keeping track of surface ownership, related improvements, commercial and industrial improvements, oil and gas assets and personal property. These efforts are all focused on market values for tax appraisal purposes. The discussion and bullet points below are designed to point out how the use of GIS will pay for itself.

We start with the way parcel maps are created, used and maintained if they are still in the analog (paper) stage. Since Texas appraisal districts are fairly new government entities, the range of different types of paper maps are as diverse as the counties themselves. Many counties have relied on the old style oil and gas maps that have been used in the energy sector since Spindletop. There are many counties who have acquired complete copies of former ASCS map sets, which are large black and white aerials affixed to hardboard backing for durability. There are also many counties who have developed their own “block” type maps, which use a scaled down county map with a block grid to refer the user to a particular plat with more detail.

Drawing and updating these maps within the appraisal district is a slow and tedious process if they are updated at all. When tracts are resurveyed or when a tract is split into two or more tracts, local mappers must follow metes and bounds to have the tract(s) properly represented on the map. Generally speaking, a small to midsized county has to establish at least one and possibly two full time positions to keep their paper maps up to date. Moving to GIS will not eliminate these positions as the cost savings related to the use of GIS really comes in with those who use them. The points below represent the differences in using paper versus GIS:

PAPER: Appraiser, clerks and related staff do not have ready access to maps and must stop what they are doing and engage the mapping department when there is a map needed. This slows their productivity as well as the mappers’ productivity.

GIS: With GIS distributed throughout the office, staff will have ready access to maps at all times and therefore will gain efficiencies because of that access.

PAPER: Paper maps keep the maps centralized and not distributed. An appraiser must consult a mapping department when going out in the field. Should that appraiser need additional maps to complete their task, they must drive all the way back in to the central office.  

GIS: Again, with GIS distributed throughout the office and even in the field, appraisers will not be required to continually consult the mapping department. Field appraiser would also have the capability to arm themselves with this data on a laptop, which would make them much more efficient in planning and executing their daily fieldwork.

PAPER: Paper maps of parcel data are single layer maps therefore they do not allow for users to overlay other layers as needed. Should another layer, such, as flood plain, zoning, neighborhood codes, etc. need to be overlaid for appraisal purposes, this must be done manually. Manually calculating acreage on irregular shapes is time consuming and costly.

GIS: One of the primary strengths of GIS is its ability to handle multiple layers, therefore giving the organization the capability to do simple or complex geospatial analysis with speed and accuracy.

PAPER: Changing values and/or classifications of parcels in a particular geographic region takes a tremendous amount of time when compared to how it’s handled using GIS.

GIS: Examples of this would be the need to select an irregularly shaped grouping of properties for appraisal adjustments. Done manually this would be time tedious and time consuming.

PAPER: Utilizing paper maps as it relates to servicing the needs of land professionals, surveyors, appraisers and other researchers creates a bottleneck in a counties mapping department and often times leads to maps being misplaced and/or worn out.

GIS: The use of GIS will allow the county to publish their parcel data online, thus allowing easy access to land professionals to research without the need to come down to the appraisal district office and utilize their staff in assisting. With GIS data on a CD the appraisal district would then create another revenue stream by providing this data pursuant to Open Records Request.

PAPER: Other entities within a county could also utilize GIS for cost savings within their own departments.

GIS: Sheriff’s departments would be able to see who the property owners are within their own patrol units on their “heads up” display. School districts would be able to better schedule school bus routes and determine with ease whether a student is “in district” or not. 911 departments would be more efficient in dispatching medical emergency calls since they would have exact home locations. Cities utilize this data as well when doing notifications pursuant to rezoning request, etc.

SUMMARY: Large and medium sized counties and cities throughout the United States have adopted the use of GIS over the years for one simple reason and that is “cost savings”. Many of the functions carried out by large counties and cities in today’s modern world would be virtually impossible without the use of GIS.


Small to mid-sized counties have been slow to adopt GIS due primarily to the cost of entry and the sheer fact that they would have to outsource the initial parcel or polygon creation job and would be faced with a large one time budget item. Local culture plays a role too in slow adoption of GIS in that the old saying, “if it aint broke, don’t fix it” applies in many cases. Generally speaking, people are resistant to change, and that is understood when the ideal of going GIS is discussed.

Now Offering Aerial Imaging Services
OGI can now provide complete Orthographic, Oblique and LiDAR Imaging services.

Call 361-904-0071 TODAY and have OGIgov put your county map online. Or email Patrick Rackley. 

Online Hosting. Take your county map to the next level.
OGIgov can do it for you.
Save time and money by having OGIgov's specialists place your county
map on the web using state-of-the-art applications for as little as
$1800/yr*. Now make your county data available to taxpayers and satisfy
the State Comptroller at the same time. Customize with features specific to your needs like:

• zoning


• development projects


• utility information


• call/search-before-you-dig.

Just give OGIgov Specialists your county data, and
we'll make a custom web application with your desired layers so that
people can use it for informative or analysis reasons. Get your county
map online easier and faster with OGIgov.

Benefits:

• Map Rule 9.3002 Compliance


• Map-assisted Valuations


• Prepare for dispute hearings


• Expand 911 Emergency Response Systems

OGIgov web based applications enhance your
productivity, reduce your costs, and improve your organizational
efficiency. Get your county parcel data, street data, and satellite
imagery online all for one low cost of only $1800/yr*.


Call 361-904-0071 TODAY and have OGIgov put your county map online. Or email Canton Hall

Are Your Maps Up to Date? Do your appraisal maps meet the minimum requirements as outlined in Comptroller Rule 9.3002? OGIgov can help.
The OGIgov team of map specialists can help you become compliant with
the Comptroller’s 9.3002 rule.  OGIgov provides a complete solution
ranging from updating and printing your maps all the way to creating
GIS maps. With a strong emphasis on data quality and accuracy, the Local Government Team can create new maps or enhance your
existing maps.

OGIgov’s Local Government work includes but is not limited to:

• Updating your maps


• Printing your county's map


• Creating your county’s GIS


• Updating your GIS to incorporate any new subdivisions or property transfers


• Raster to Vector conversion


• Data conversion


• Georectification – alignment to aerial imagery


• Online hosting of county map