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It will cost the county approximately $6,000 to set up a geocode system that will automate a^yssment and tax records e^T centralize land use inforrpjation, according to Department of Agriculture representatives Gene Wunderlich and Jack Barrett.
Wunderlich and Barrett attended last week’s meeting of the Rappahannock Planning Commission to brief the Planners on costs of the system under consideration.
Currently, data on land ownership, parcel size, use and slope and development approved administratively (without public notice) is available to the Planners or interested citizens. The information is found in records kept in several locations, including the Clerk’s, Commissioner of Revenue's and Zoning offices.
For several months, the Planning Commission members have been discussing the feasibility of adopting a geocode system that would pull together data from all county records and make it available at one source. The Planners have also considered computerizing records for the County Treasurer and Commissioner of Revenue—a job that could be done at the same time as implementation of the geocode system.
Geocode Discussed
“What is it you want to have geocode?” Wunderlich asked the Commission.
“Information from the land books,” answered Planner Newbill Miller.
“As much usable information...as we can reasonably expect to get,” Planner E. P. Luke added.
Wunderlich explained that coding the physical data was the most expensive part of setting up a geocode system. He noted that merely plotting the latitude and longitude of
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