What is the purpose of the Land Information Office?
Many of the County's most basic services rely on accurate and up-to-date land information. Emergency response, resource conservation, infrastructure maintenance, economic development, planning and voting activities all involve the storage of, access to and analysis of various land records. It's been estimated that as much as 90% of the information that County government consumes on a day-to-day basis is geographic in nature. Efficient access to information such as addresses, buildings, roads, utilities, elevation, floodplains, response districts, voting wards, zoning, land use, tax parcels, and many other types and combinations of land information is critical for various functions of government and the public as well.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have the unique ability to tie land information together in a common system that can be shared throughout each County department, and also readily distributed to businesses and private citizens who rely on these data. GIS is a great tool not just for mapping, but also attaching database attributes to each map feature to allow for advanced retrieval and analysis. GIS enables county staff to rapidly integrate combinations of maps and data. Most importantly, GIS allows for massive amounts of data to be quickly turned into information that can be analyzed and efficiently communicated to people (who need it fast) in the form of easy-to-visualize maps, charts, colors, symbols, and reports.
Geography and GIS offer a very powerful way of both storing and searching through information, combining text search and geographic search to allow analysts and decision-makers to find and see relevant information faster. Geography along with GIS offer a new and much improved framework for storing, identifying and analyzing the overwhelming volume of databases, maps, text documents, web sites, and other information available today.
Mission
The mission of the Land Information Office (LIO) is to implement the
Brown County Land Records Modernization Plan. This plan addresses the technological and organizational issues associated with storing, sharing and depicting information and records related to land. The integration of mapping, geographic information systems (GIS), document imaging, databases, and computer networking are among the topics addressed in the plan.
LIO Partnerships
The success of the efforts of the LIO hinge on the successful cooperation of a number of departments within Brown County as well as other local governments, state agencies, businesses, utilities, public stakeholders and the
Wisconsin Land Information Program. Through a web of formal and informal institutional arrangements and policies, we will develop a community-wide understanding of custodial responsibilities, implementation priorities, and standards to realize our vision of a countywide multi-participant geographic/land information system.
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