Saturday, May 18, 2013

Crawford County GIS

Last year Crawford County finally introduced a free online GIS website.  I applaud whoever it was at the county who got this project put through.  Go to http://crawfordcountypa.net/gis and try it for yourself.

If you want to see lot lines, you have to check the box on the left menu for "Tax Parcels Group".  Once you have this enabled, you can zoom in to your area of interest and then switch to the "i" tool (Map Identify) which is available in the upper left corner in order to view the information for any parcel. 

This is a great way to find out who owns land in order to be able to avoid trespassing.  Surprisingly, there are quite a few city, state, and township owned parcels that I was not aware of.  There are areas of Meadville where there used to be buildings where there is just forest now, like Cussewago Island.  In these areas, there are still street right of ways although you wouldn't know it if you were standing there!

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