Congratulations to new CMS designees

The International Association of Assessing Officers (IAAO) is the internationally recognized leader and preeminent source for innovation, education, and research in property appraisal, assessment administration, and property tax policy. The body of members represents assessment offices around the world and the vendors supporting those offices.
It is a great privilege to share some news about [...]

State of TN Now Offering Statewide Imagery for Purchase or Download

The State of TN Office for Information Resources (OIR), GIS Services Division are now making statewide imagery available for purchase or download. Anyone can now purchase the raw .TIF digital orthophotos and digital terrain models (DTMs) developed from the Tennessee Basemapping Program on a per sheet basis. More details about the nature, format and cost of [...]

Southeast Watershed Forum Announces New Online Mapping Service

From the Southeast Wathershed Forum Newsletter

This month the Southeast Watershed Forum launches a new and valuable resource for land and water protection. The Community Resource Mapper provides a free, user-friendly, on-line mapping service that will help communities integrate natural resource protection into their land use planning efforts.
Visitors to the site can create maps at [...]

Augmenting the TN Basemap ortho deliverable

This year begins a new flying program for the much heralded and first-in-the-nation Basemap program in TN (TNBMP). As I write this, TDOT is capturing western TN counties on a county-by-county regional (~25% of the state per year) coverage area at 1″=200′ scale county-wide. Next year (’09) we’ll see many middle TN Counties [...]

Upcoming ESRI training with GEO-Jobe

GEO-Jobe GIS provides Intro to ArcGIS I and Intro to ArcGIS II classes at our corporate training center in Nashville and at select locations throughout the state of TN.  If you are interested in putting together a group of 8 or more, we will come onsite and provide training at your location. Call us for [...]

Tennessee gets B- in Pew’s “Grading the States” Survey

In this case, a B- means Tennessee is among a group of states that Pew Charitable Trust views as average compared to all other states. States are graded on four functional areas:

Money (B-)
People (C)
Infrastructure (B)
Information (B)

High marks went to the Comptrollers office who oversees property assessment, and several other departments at the state level.
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McMinn County GEOpowered Site To Go Live Next Thursday

McMinn County, TN will soon join the list of GEOpowered mapping sites in TN. Spearheaded by Assessor of Property Don Cowart and GIS Manager Jeremy Brack, McMinn will soon provide an essential service to its County employees and also to the public within and around the County. The McMinn interactive GEOpowered mapping site [...]

TNGIC Releases Draft of 2008 Conference Agenda

On Tuesday, the Tennessee Geographic Information Council (TNGIC)Conference Committee released a draft of the upcoming 2008 TNGIC Conference to be held in Chattanooga, TN. The conference is only 5 weeks away, so check out the (draft) agenda and start making your reservations today. Early bird registration ends on March 1st so to receive the savings [...]

ESRI to Roll Out New GIS Courses with Release of ArcGIS 9.3

ESRI recently announced they will be rolling out three new GIS courses following the release of ArcGIS 9.3 later this year. Per the ATP (Authorized Training Program) announcement sent out last Friday, the new ArcGIS courses will be replacing the Learning GIS using ArcGIS, Introduction to ArcGIS I and Introduction to ArcGIS II courses. All of [...]

GEOpowered site of the month

This month we are promoting the Hardeman County, TN GEOpowered interactive mapping site. Hardeman County, with its county seat in Bolivar, TN, sits just east of Memphis and south of Jackson. On the GEOpowered site you’ll find property information available through map or text searches. With GEOpowered, we make online interactive mapping [...]