Land Records Management

Pro-West to Sponsor NCAA Conference 2020 Pro-West is pleased to sponsor the Northern California Assessors’ Association (NCAA) annual conference, happening virtually for the first time from August 4-6, 2020. We are looking forward to connecting with the Assessor community in the NorCal region to share experiences of using GIS to modernize, streamline and improve fairness throughout…

WHAT’S ON THE AGENDA FOR DAY 3? Day 3 kicks off with the expo hall opening at 7:30am PDT. Visit Pro-West’s virtual booth. Make sure you’re logged into the conference platform and click on “Access Esri UC”.  Sessions! MANY technical session options are on today’s agenda. See this post for our recommendations. Full agenda is here. Learn about GIS for asset management.…

Cody Wolfe, GIS Technician Welcome to the second posts in this series on reading legal descriptions. In the last post, I shared the fundamentals of understanding the Public Land Surveying System (PLSS), which is vital in getting to where your parcel is going to be described. The next step – understanding legal description terminology and the…

PRE-REGISTRATION NOW AVAILABLE! Join Pro-West & Associates at our virtual booth for 20-minute live learning sessions on the hottest topics for the GIS community, direct from the experts. A demo will be held on a different topic during every segment of expo hours throughout the conference. REGISTER HERE HOW DO I JOIN PRO-WEST LEARNLIVE? All Learn Live…

WHAT’S PRO-WEST DOING AT UC 2020? Pro-West will have a virtual exhibit booth at the conference, where attendees can visit us online. Once at our exhibit booth, connect with the Pro-West team via the “Interact Live” button. Our virtual booth will be staff continuously during conference expo hours. We hope you will stop by for an informal chat or…

Cody Wolfe, GIS Technician Welcome to the first of three posts in which we will cover the fundamentals of reading legal descriptions – a task that is vital to tax parcel information and other land records-related work. To understand legal descriptions, it’s necessary to first understand the Public Land Surveying System (PLSS). The PLSS was…

Pro-West will join the Property Records Industry Association (PRIA) and Esri at the 2020 PRIA Winter Symposium in Austin, TX, taking place February 24-27, to present on the organization’s “GIS Toolkit – How to Get Started”. Being held Thursday, February 27 at 11:10-noon, the session represents an extension of the previously published GIS and Land Records Integration white paper and will…

PRO-WEST IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE ITS SPONSORSHIP OF THE , TAKING PLACE IN CHICAGO, IL FEBRUARY 25-26. Held for the first time in 2019, the  provides a unique opportunity for the Midwest’s GIS location technology community to connect with each other and with Esri to share knowledge and look ahead at what’s coming for GIS. As a…

Pro-West is pleased to be a silver sponsor of this year’s , taking place February 19-21 in Middleton, WI, where Pro-West Geospatial Data Specialist Lisa Schaefer will also teach a workshop and give a presentation. Starting with workshops on February 19, the  will feature Parcel Management in Pro: What’s Changing? delivered by Pro-West’s Lisa Schaefer and providing trainees with…