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Tax Parcels, Tompkins County NY, 2005

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Identification Information
Citation
Originator
Tompkins County ITS GIS Division
Originator
Tompkins County Assessment Department
Publication Date
20050701
Title
Tax Parcels, Tompkins County NY, 2005
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
vector digital data
Online Linkage
https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/catalog/cugir-007874
Abstract
The active tax parcel boundaries for all of Tompkins County for a given year. The boundaries represent the one-to-one match with the parcel boundaries shown on the final paper maps for a given year.
Purpose
The parcel boundaries represent legal descriptions of property ownership, as recorded in various public documents in the Tompkins County Clerk's Office. This is the database of property ownership and information in Tompkins County, as mandated by New York State. This database can be related to the New York State Office of Real Property Services (RPS) database extract using either the SWISPRINTK field or the PARCELKEY field.
Supplemental Information
Properties that are tracked by an account number (utilities, railroads, etc.) may be shown as several separate tax parcel boundaries, with different tax map print keys, even though they are tracked in the RPS database under the same account number and treated as one single parcel. The parcel region will show these account-number properties as one tax parcel boundary, while the printkey region will show each separate tax parcel boundary that is a part of the account number. As of 2005, the tax parcel boundaries have not been edge-matched by municipality, except for Villages within their respective Town. This data set is derived from the tax parcel region of all tax parcel data sets in Tompkins County and is maintained as a geodatabase featureclass by municipality. For property ownership information please contact the Tompkins County Assessment Department.
Temporal Extent
Currentness Reference
publication date
Time Instant
20050630
Bounding Box
West
-76.696211
East
-76.237347
North
42.627348
South
42.262716
Theme Keyword
property
ownership
land record
parcel
tax
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
None
ISO Topic Category
boundaries
planningCadastre
Theme Keyword
boundaries
property
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
CUGIR Category
Place Keyword
Tompkins County, New York
Place Keyword Thesaurus
None
Temporal Keyword
Access Restrictions
None
Use Restrictions
The following statement must be included with any products that use or are derived from this data set: Data contained in this product was originally produced by the Tompkins County ITS GIS Division and the Tompkins County Assessment Department and may not be reproduced or redistributed without the express written consent of the originators. The originators do not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the information portrayed by the data. The data contained herein is for visualization purposes only and cannot be used for conveyance. Property boundaries are based on legal documents, aerial photos, software interpolation, and registration to the 1991 Tompkins County Digital Planimetric Files and, therefore, may differ from legal property descriptions. For complete legal descriptions and conveyance, please refer to the appropriate deeds, surveys, and other legal documents.
Status
Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency
Continually, with new versions published annually, each July 1
Point of Contact
Contact Person
Cattyann Campbell
Delivery Point
128 East Buffalo Street
City
Ithaca
State
New York
Postal Code
14850
Country
USA
Contact Telephone
(607) 274-5418
Contact Facsimile Telephone
(607) 274-5420
Contact Electronic Mail Address
gis@tompkins-co.org
Hours of Service
M-F 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Credit
Tompkins County ITS GIS Division and Tompkins County Assessment Department
Native Data Set Environment
Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.1.0.722
Cross-Reference
Originator
Tompkins County Assessment Department
Publication Date
20050701
Title
Standard GIS Extract of Real Property Services Data - 2005
Other Citation Details
Tompkins County ITS GIS Division is responsible for creating the extract and converting it to a format that is compatible with the County's GIS.
Cross-Reference
Originator
Tompkins County Assessment Department
Publication Date
2005
Title
Tompkins County Real Property Services (RPS) Database
Other Citation Details
The New York State Office of Real Property Services (RPS) database extract can be related using either the SWISPRINTK field or the PARCELKEY field.
Data Quality Information
Attribute Accuracy Report
See Entity and Attribute Information
Logical Consistency Report
The taxparcel region from each municipality's tax map data set is appended into one County-wide data set. This data set's topology is created real-time using ArcGIS map and geodatabase topology rules, then converted to an ArcView shapefile. All error checking is done in the source data sets.
Completeness Report
Complete parcels for the entire County.
Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
Varies, depending on source of parcel boundary (survey, deed, aerial photo, raw conversion from paper maps). The accuracy of the data set is limited to the accuracy of the 1991 Tompkins County Planimetric Base Map series.
Lineage
Spatial Data Organization Information
Direct Spatial Reference Method
Vector
Point and Vector Object Information
SDTS Terms Description
SDTS Point and Vector Object Type
G-polygon
Point and Vector Object Count
33872
Spatial Reference Information
Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
Planar
Grid Coordinate System
Grid Coordinate System Name
State Plane Coordinate System 1983
State Plane Coordinate System
SPCS Zone Identifier
3102
Transverse Mercator
Planar Coordinate Information
Planar Coordinate Encoding Method
coordinate pair
Coordinate Representation
Abscissa Resolution
0.000256
Ordinate Resolution
0.000256
Planar Distance Units
survey feet
Geodetic Model
Horizontal Datum Name
North American Datum of 1983
Ellipsoid Name
Geodetic Reference System 80
Semi-major Axis
6378137.000000
Denominator of Flattening Ratio
298.257222
Entity and Attribute Information
Entity Type
Entity Type Label
taxparcels05_update
Entity Type Definition
Tompkins County Tax parcels 2005
Entity Type Definition Source
Tompkins County ITS GIS Division
Attributes
PARCELKEY
Real Property Services (RPS) Database parcel key (Swis-Section-Block-Lot or SSBL). This field is updated yearly based on the GIS extract of the final-roll RPS database. This field can be used to relate to the RPS database. (string)
Definition Source
Tompkins County ITS GIS Division
SWISPRINTK
Concatenation of SWIS code, "-", and the PRINTKEY field, for those polygons without an account number (ie, a blank ACCOUNTNUM), or a concatenation of SWIS code, "-", and the ACCOUNTNUM field (at least for some polygons with an account number). This field is easily reproducible within the Real Property Services database extract, and is used as the primary relate (key) field to the RPS extract from the parcel data sets. This field is used to create the Print Key region in this data set. (string)
Definition Source
Tompkins County ITS GIS Division
SWIS
State SWIS code for the municipality in which the parcel is located. (Not necessarily the same as the SWIS code in which the polygon is located)
500200
Town of Caroline
502200
Town of Danby
502401
Village of Dryden
502403
Village of Freeville
502489
Town of Dryden
502600
Town of Enfield
502801
Village of Groton
502889
Town of Groton
503001
Village of cayuga Heights
503089
Town of Ithaca
503201
Village of Lansing
503289
Town of Lansing
503400
Town of Newfield
503601
Village of Trumansburg
503689
Town of Ulysses
500700
City of Ithaca
Definition Source
1997
PRINTKEY
Real Property Services database print key (Section-Block-Lot, or S-B-L). (string)
Definition Source
Tompkins County ITS GIS Division
ACCOUNTNUM
Real Property Services (RPS) Database account number, which is used to uniquely identify railroad, state-owned, and utility properties. The original values were extracted directly from the RPS database. This field was updated automatically in the past when the region layers were created using the PARCREGS.aml Macro. (string)
Definition Source
Tompkins County ITS GIS Division
PERIMETER
Length of perimeter, in U.S. survey feet (0 to Unbounded)
Definition Source
SHAPE_AREA
Area, in square U.S. survey feet (0 to Unbounded)
Definition Source
RPSACRES
Real Property Services (RPS) acreage, extracted from the RPS database. This acreage will reflect the total acreage of the parcel, which is not necessarily the same area as the polygon. (0 to Unbounded)
Definition Source
Tompkins County ITS GIS Division, 1999
CALCACRES
Calculated Acreage (AREA / 43560) (0 to Unbounded)
Definition Source
Tompkins County ITS GIS Division
Distribution Information
Format Name
Shapefile
Format Name
metadata
Format Name
HTML metadata
Format Name
KML
Format Name
GeoJSON
Format Name
OGC:WMS
Distributor
Albert R. Mann Library
Online Access
https://cugir-data.s3.amazonaws.com/00/78/74/cugir-007874.zip
Online Access
https://cugir-data.s3.amazonaws.com/00/78/74/fgdc.xml
Online Access
https://cugir-data.s3.amazonaws.com/00/78/74/fgdc.html
Online Access
https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/geoserver/cugir/wfs?version=1.0.0request=GetFeaturetypeName=cugir007874outputFormat=application%2Fvnd.google-earth.kml%2Bxml
Online Access
https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/geoserver/cugir/wfs?version=1.0.0request=GetFeaturetypeName=cugir007874outputFormat=application%2Fjson
Online Access
https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/geoserver/cugir/wms?version=1.1.0request=GetMaplayers=cugir007874bbox=-76.70997692,42.25177704,-76.22358108,42.638286959999995width=256height=203srs=EPSG:4326format=image/png
Name
Distribution Information
Format Name
ArcInfo Shapefile
Distributor
Tompkins County ITS GIS Division
Name
Metadata Reference Information
Metadata Date
20190524
Metadata Contact
Contact Information
Contact Organization Primary
Contact Organization
Albert R. Mann Library
Contact Address
Address
Albert R. Mann Library
City
Ithaca
State or Province
New York
Postal Code
14853
Country
USA
Contact Voice Telephone
607-255-5406
Contact Electronic Mail Address
mann-ref@cornell.edu
Metadata Standard Name
FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata Standard Version
FGDC-STD-001-1998
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