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Track: Local/State Government, Cadastral, Land Records
Jane Poole
LOJIC
700 W Liberty Street
Louisville, KY 40203
Telephone: 502-540-6435
Fax: 502-540-6562
A LOJIC-al Approach to Providing GIS Products and Services
Defining Issue: Making the Louisville and Jefferson County Information Consortium (LOJIC) database more accessible to the public and private sector while recouping the cost to create and maintain the database and the cost to create products. Scope: In 1990, realizing that LOJIC planimetric and topographic basemap data were useful to many segments of our community outside of the Consortium, LOJIC began making mapping products available to the public and private sector at reasonable fees defined by state legislation. Following guidelines established in the Kentucky Revised Statutes (KRS) 61 on Open Records, fees were derived for these products. Today, in addition to the planimetric and topographic data, products containing property, flood insurance rate mapping (FIRM), political boundaries, and zoning data are obtainable from several LOJIC participant agencies. Fees have been established for products based on combinations of the following factors: Product Use (Commercial or noncommercial); Data Costs
(Commercial use only); Product Reproducibility; Product Format (Hardcopy of digital); Product Media (Paper, mylar, magnetic media); Staff Costs (Product creation); Product Type (Custom or standard) KRS 61 allows for fees based on the creation and maintenance of data plus the cost of media, mechanical processing, and staff costs required to produce a product for a commercial use. Noncommercial use products cannot include a data creation fee. The newest LOJIC database available as a product is the rectified imagery database at one, five, and fifteen foot resolutions. This database is proving to be extremely useful to LOJIC participant agencies and to our customers. Future products include a series of compact discs with viewing programs containing geocoded (i.e., street centerline data), property, sewers, and zoning information. Currently all LOJIC products are either available in hardcopy or digital form from a LOJIC participant agency office. LOJIC is looking to the day when its database can be queried
and accessed through the Internet, making the data accessible to users nationwide and worldwide.
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