Oneida County Online Data Putting Survey Records And Maps Online When On A Tight Budget
Putting Survey Records Online
Jun 27, 2015
2011 WLIA Annual 10C - Putting Survey Records and Maps Online when on a tight budget
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Oneida County Online DataPutting Survey Records And Maps Online When On A Tight Budget
Presenters
•Mike Romportl, Oneida County• Land Information Director
• Andy Faust, North Central Wisconsin RPC• Senior GIS Analyst
Agenda
• Overview of “The Project”• Demo of the Website• Summary• Questions
The Project• Put survey, parcel, zoning, address, voting,
FIRM, PLSS corner certificates, survey notes, and anything else Mike could find in his office online.
• Budget - $0
Steps 1• Organize Data• 9 DVD 43,000 files and around 14GB data• Batch convert all TIFF images to PDF• Combined multi pages PDF’s where needed
Step 2• Uploaded all the PDF’s to NCWRPC’s website and opened up
folder level file browsing
Step 3• Created a linked PDF report from MS Access database from
the county’s survey index. (429 pages)
Step 4• Created HTML form to find maps by number using PHP.
<html><body><h4>Retrieve an Oneida County Map!</h4><form action="/phpsessions/get.php" method="post"><select name="type"><option>A</option><option>B</option><option>C</option><option>L</option><option>R</option></select>-<input name="number" type="text" /><input type="submit" /></form></body></html>
PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) is a popular general-purpose server side scripting language which can be embedded into HTML to create a wide variety of mini-applications - Open Source / Free
<?phpsession_save_path("your home directory path"/cgi-bin/tmp); session_start(); $dir = "_Maps";$type = $_POST['type'];$number = $_POST['number'];
echo "<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='0;url=http://www.ncwrpc.org/Oneida_data/Survey_Maps/$type$dir/$type$number.pdf'>";?>
Step 5• Create a webpage
Step 6• Search for all survey maps by Town / Range / Section• Needed to get the survey index database into an online searchable
database• MySQL – open source database / FREE!
Step 7Create a PHP script to find all records by Town / Range / Section
<?phpsession_start(); $Town = $_POST['Town'];$Range = $_POST['Range'];$Section = $_POST['Section'];$con = mysql_connect('ncwrpc.fatcowmysql.com', 'oneida', 'password');if (!$con) { die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error()); }mysql_select_db("ncwrpc", $con);$sql = "SELECT * FROM `index5` WHERE `MAPID` = $Town$Range$Section LIMIT 0, 500 ";$result = mysql_query($sql);echo "<table border='2' cellpadding='5' cellspacing='2' bordercolor='#000000' bgcolor='#B8B8B8' ><tr><h2>TOWN: $Town N - RANGE: $Range E - SECTION: $Section</h2><th bgcolor=\"#669999\">MAP1</th><th bgcolor=\"#669999\">DESC. 1</th><th bgcolor=\"#669999\">DESC. 2</th><th bgcolor=\"#669999\">REMARKS</th><th bgcolor=\"#669999\">SURVEYOR</th><th bgcolor=\"#669999\">YEAR</th></tr>";
…………………………..etc…………………………
Step 8• Add search to website
Search Results
Website
Summary• Free?• Have a friend (RPC) with a hosting plan• Be a member of the RPC• Some knowledge of HTML – Web Servers• PHP www.php.net• MySQL www.mysql.com
• Maintenance• County staff will FTP new survey, parcel, corner certificates as
they become available. (survey index database)• Summary• Simple way to provide low cost access to records to the public• 3000 to 5000 hits per month since it went public
Questions
•www.ncwrpc.org/Oneida_data
• Mike Romportl, Oneida County• Andy Faust, North Central Wisconsin RPC
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