Slides from Sean Fernandez, Keaton Walker, Rick Kelson (State of Utah AGRC) and Lina Haggard (Utah State Trust Lands, aka SITLA) describe the PLSS, Parcel, GPS Network, and cadastral grant program efforts in Utah to build GIS cadastral data. Note: Rick Kelson's presentation on the aggregation of county parcels into a statewide database is uploaded separately on slideshare as: Utah SGID: Parcel Layer Activities Update

1. 2011 UGIC Building the Utah Cadastre through partnerships Sean Fernandez, State of Utah AGRC Keaton Walker, State of Utah AGRC Rick Kelson, State of Utah AGRC Lina Haggard, State Trust Lands (SITLA)

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19. Live Demo PLSS Web App

20. Vertical Integration of Parcels Attribute Comparison Public Land Survey System (GCDB) Land Ownership Boundaries (includes State and Federal Parcels) County Parcels

22. Land Ownership Status and Areas of Responsibility for the State of Utah SGID93.CADASTRE.LandOwnership *SITLA Layer File (STATE_LGD ) Fields OWNER codes Highest level owner of parcel Agency level owner of parcel *SITLA – School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration Entity with Administrative Jurisdiction of parcel General land management designation for parcel SITLA Legend codes Utah BLM Legend codes National BLM Legend codes Federal administrative names State administrative names GIS calculated acres Date of update to parcel Sample Attribute Combination #1 Agency may differ from whom administers (ADMIN) the parcel. The Federal BLM office may lease an area to the Utah State Parks Department for use as a recreational area. The owner is the federal, the federal agency responsible for the land is the BLM but the Utah State Parks Department is the administrators of the land because the land has been designated as a state park and recreation area. Sample Attribute Combination #2

23. Land Ownership and County Parcels Owner Type values – a comparison Land Ownership Owner Type Values County Parcel data sources Sample Owner Type values Many different values for owner types Not standardized between Counties Too few values for owner type? Attribute discrepancies may exist! Land Ownership County Parcels For data that can be used and shared across the state there is a need to: - Cooperate - Collaborate - Standardize Improve over time

24. Land Ownership, County Parcels and the PLSS Vertical alignment Land Ownership: Integrated with the November 2006 version of GCDB -> few County control corners in the 2006 version Need to move to the newest version of GCDB -> more County control points, improved dataset

25. Land Ownership Chasing the PLSS

26. Land Ownership Integrated to 2011 version of GCDB

28. SITLA Development parcels The Parcel Editor Tools and Parcel Fabric - part of core ArcGIS Desktop software SITLA GIS Group reviews and incorporates survey plat legal descriptions to parcel layers - A need to more efficiently review plat information and to store the description calls

29. SITLA Development parcels Review of legal description Creating Parcels - Import Traverse File - Append XML File - Enter Parcel traverse - Construct Parcel (i.e. from AutoCAD lines) And more (See Esri Help Documentation) Check Misclosure - provides a first-level quality check Parcel dimensions stored in attribute table

30. SITLA Development parcels Join Parcel to Fabric and Run LSA Joining to Fabric Check Join Residual – the Parcel Fit second-level quality check Run Least Squares Adjustment (LSA) on joined parcels comprehensive level quality check - the parcel dimensions are used together with the control points to improve the accuracy

31. SITLA Development parcels Tie to PLSS Corners Create Parcel Check Closure Join to Fabric Tie to PLSS corner Join to adjacent parcels Check Join Residual - Fit After Join Export description to XML files to share More about the parcel fabric -> Thursday 8:30 – 10 am ArcGIS 10 for Land Records (Esri)

32. Vertical Integration of Parcels Improving Over Time