Fifteen West Virginia Counties and Growing
The County Information Portal
The Mountain CAD County Information Portal is a web-based application or Portal that allows users to search for Real Estate and/or Personal Property information contained in the WV County Assessor Integrated Assessment System (IAS). This product can run internal to a courthouse or it can be a Web Page to allow users to do all manners of property research without coming to the courthouse.
The County Information Portal allows the user to search by single or multiple sets of criteria. While IAS itself allows for lookup of individual properties the County Information Portal allows you to search for single or multiple properties. In addition the user can use other search topics such as land use, tax class, property class, neighborhood and legal description.
Along with the tabular data contained in IAS the user can view the corresponding parcel map, a photo of the house or building on that map, a scanned deed and a building footprint.
The Portal can also serve the Enterprise. Because of it s GIS component the product can serve as a centralized mapping system for the entire county and it can integrate with other popular GIS software from vendors like ESRI and Autodesk. It is the perfect tool to share data around the courthouse and the county.
Major Benefits - Assessor's Office
- The County Information Portal provides a link between the central database (IAS) and the maps in a format that is inexpensive and easy to use.
- Providing Internet access to property information reduces telephone calls and foot traffic allowing staff to work more efficiently
- Easily do up front research before doing field appraisal
- Lookup comparable sales to justify assessments
- Find all properties owned by an individual or company
- Find properties based on a wide range data such as sales price and date, tax class, property class, neighborhood, legal description, land use, ownership, and address.
- Generate custom reports from IAS data
- Sharing of map data with print capabilities for all staff
- Electronic Map Cards eliminates double entry of property information
Major Benefits - County Enterprise
- Enterprise GIS
- Share and manage all data from one central application
- The tool compliments the activities of issuing County Building Permits. The user can locate the property and determine if it is in a flood plain saving many man-hours.
- Share GIS maps and database information between all county departments eliminating the need to purchase and be trained on additional software
- Gives Fire, Police and Rescue Units building information before entering
- Use as search engine for all county documents
- Publish important map data for the public
- Evacuation Routes
- Flood Plains
- Shelters in Place
- Voting Precincts
- Sex Offender location
- Crime location
- Hospital location
- Bus Routes
The County Information Portal makes county government more efficient and more responsive to its citizens.
