January 4, 2000
Centennial Office Building, room 302
St. Paul, MN 55155
Attendees:
David Arbeit, Land Management Information Center
Bob Block, Otter Tail County
Luci Botzek, Minnesota Association of County Officers
Jeff Grosso, City of St. Paul
Fred Logman, Minnesota Counties Computer Cooperative
Chris Mavis, Washington County
Eileen McCormack, Minnesota Office of Technology
Ken Saffert, Mankato Intergovernmental Center
Phil Sailer, Pro-West & Associates Inc.
Rory Vose, Resource Studies Center, St. Mary's University
Jay Wittstock, Dakota County
Nicole Brown, Land Management Information Center, Minnesota Planning
WELCOME
Members were welcomed and introductions made.
APPROVAL OF AGENDA AND MINUTES
Luci Botzek, committee chair called the meeting to order at 12:35 p.m. The
meeting agenda was accepted as presented, as were the 11/30/99 meeting minutes.
ELECT A CO-CHAIR
The committee convened and elected Jay Wittstock to represent the Land
Records Modernization Committee as a Co-chair.
INFORMATION ABOUT CADASTRAL STANDARDS
(Handouts: Cadastral Data Content Standard for the National Spatial Data Infrastructure; version 1.1, Cadastral Subcommittee FGDC, and NILS (National Integrated Land System), and Property Tax/Value Information for Public Access System)
Chris Cialek reported on the FGDC Cadastral Standards. Six years ago the FGDC put together a workgroup that developed land parcel standards. The committee drafted a standard that dealt with cadastral data. The Standards Committee of the Governor's Council along with other state committees and organizations reviewed the standard in 1995. After the review the FGDC and the NSSDI revised and reissued the standard in April of 1999. The Cadastral Standard identifies a model to define legal land subdivisions and offers detailed definitions for the entities relationships and attributes that comprise that cadastral model. The FGDC cadastral working group is now partnering with various Federal, State, and Local agencies to examine the implementation of Cadastral Standards. Data sharing is much easier when a structured database has been established. The following excerpt is taken directly from the Cadastral Data Content Standard:
Objectives: (http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/status/sub3_5.html)
- To provide common definitions for cadastral information found in public records, which will facilitate the effective use, understanding, and automation of land records,
- To standardize attribute values, which will enhance data sharing,
- To resolve discrepancies related to the use of homonyms and synonyms in federal land record systems, which will minimize duplication within and among those systems,
- To provide guidance and direction for land records and land surveying professionals on standardized attribute values and definitions, which will improve land records creation, management, and use, and
- To use participatory involvement in the standard development to reach out to non-federal organizations which will encourage broadly based application of the standard.
Scope: The Cadastral Data Content Standard is intended to support the automation and integration of publicly available land records information. It is intended to be useable by all levels of government and the private sector. The standard contains the standardization of entities and objects related to cadastral information including survey measurements, transactions related to interests in land, general property descriptions, and boundary and corner evidence data. Any or all of these applications are intended to be supported by the standard. The standard is not intended to reflect an implementation design.
Cialek reported that the FGDC and its partners, most notable the Bureau of Land Management, has developed the National Integrated Land System (NILS). Arizona, Oregon and Washington have begun collaboration with the Bureau of Land Management to test the cadastral model and assist in the development of GIS applications software to help implement it, ESRI is particularly interested in this. GEO Communicator, which is a program of NILS, has developed a database of survey corners and control point inventory, similar to what the LRM committee is trying to do.
Cialek noted that the Standards Committee is interested with this issue. He stated that the committee would like to take the standard, identify its value, show how it can be used and get information out to folks who would likely use it. Cialek reported that he has contacted Nancy Von Meyer and she has shared information that the FGDC has contracted with a group out of Wisconsin to help develop and facilitate the cadastral standard.
Cialek noted that the committee could explore the possibility to develop more educational tools for the cadastral standard that might do a better job of getting the details for people to better understand land records. He stated that the key is to remember that the standard is a model and a lexicon that can be applied differently depending on the needs of individual implementers. This is not a requirement it is just a standard.
The Land Records Committee will discuss the cadastral standard information over the next few committee meetings. Cialek notes that the Standards Committee has an interest to further examine the Cadastral Standard and if the committee would like to express interest they can contact Cialek or bring the LRM committee to the standards committee meeting.
For further review of the cadastral standard document see the web site at:
FGDC: http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/status/sub3_5.html
NILS: http://www-a.blm.gov/nils/
DISCUSSION OF 2000 LRM COMMITTEE WORK PROGRAM
The committee agreed that Land Records Modernization is to be defined. The
committee gave many ideas and created a list of possible terms to be identified
and correlated with LRM. Three columns were created: attributes, components and
issues. From these columns the committee will collaborate the terms and attempt
to decipher a land records definition.
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While discussing the above list the committee agreed that "parcel"
needs to be defined as well. Logman suggested conducting a statutory research
project to identifying the definition of a parcel. Arbeit and Mavis agreed to
help Logman with the research.
The committee will continue to discuss the initiatives to define committee
priorities for the year to come. The committee is currently focused on defining
land records modernization and continuing to research issues surrounding parcel
identification numbers.
OTHER BUSINESS
No other business was discussed
NEXT MEETING
January 31, 2000 from 10:30a.m.-1:00 p.m. at Minnesota Planning, Centennial
Office Building, room 301.
ADJOURN
Meeting adjourned at 3:00 p.m.
N. Brown – 1/00