In today's world, access to information is important to people.
People make better and quicker decisions when they have easy access to good information.
For example, cadastral or parcel information, both mapping and attribute information, has always been available to the public, but only in hard copy formats and at only one or two locations within a government complex. Hard copy formats meant copying and splicing maps and data together. It also meant flipping pages back and forth to look up values. Mapping office employees love the system, too, as their assistance locating information is needed less, giving them more time for other tasks like maintaining the County's digital mapping. The system includes county-wide digital orthophotos, parcels, roads, strucutres, streams, soils, and addresses that can be displayed, manipulated, and printed.