Hanover County Geographic Information Access System: Effectively Making County Information Available for Use by Everyone

Author: Timothy R. Enderlein
Organization: Geo Decisions

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State College, PA 16803
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The Hanover County Geographic Data Access System is a complete municipal data access tool developed by Hanover County, Virginia. The system allows access to a wide variety of vector, raster, and hard-copy data including tax parcels, cash proffers, assessment information, zoning information, historic structures, utilities, archaeological sites, and orthophotos. This paper tracks the evolution of the system from a simple Avenue parcel viewer to an enterprisewide/Internet system based on ArcIMS and ultimately SDE. Issues involved with using evolving Esri technology to meet ever increasing internal and public demands for County-wide geographic information are discussed.