Abstract

Production Mapping and Parcel Fabric Shaping New Mexico's Right-of-Ways
Track: Cadastral and Land Records
Authors: Bill Baillargeon, Courtney Moore

The New Mexico State Land Office (NMSLO) currently maintains attribute information about spatial locations within a non-spatial mainframe database, developed originally to manage oil and gas financials.
Adapting this system for right-of-way (ROW) data poses several challenges. ROW spatial location can be represented only by Public Land Survey System descriptors, and not by the actual survey description. This database cannot readily accommodate changes within its schema and cannot be made spatially aware. NMSLO required a new, GIS-centric model to resolve these challenges.
ESRI's Parcel Fabric dataset was determined as the best solution. Parcel Fabric captures many aspects of business processes within legal documents, plan information, legal descriptions, and ability to reference surveyed points. Parcel Fabric also supports schema changes, subtypes and geoprocessing, and history. Additionally, ESRI's Production Mapping was deployed to manage the data lifecycle, empowering managers and technicians by combining both business and spatial processes of a ROW.