Information regarding the department that oversees and maintains the GIS program in your city or town - Community Development, Engineering, Technology, etc. The Public Works Department, specifically the Engineering Division, maintains the base dataset and standards. The actual City Project start date was in 1982. Data conversion started in 1985 and continued through 1989. The departments that are currently using GIS and have access to the information.
All departments have the ability to access the data.
The base maps were created by the City with the data collection and organization done by City staff and the digital conversion done by two consultants, Mid-States Engineering and Mapping Automation. The City did quarter section control before the data conversion started and all maps are built to this control. In our system, we do no 'digitizing' of data but use survey and legal property descriptions for the property maps which gives us, in many cases, sub-inch accuracy. While there are a number of production platforms available, CADD-based platforms allow better accuracy control. Both these differences can add to the costs of maintaining the dataset.