Demonstration 6a: Property Assessment Data And GIS Polygon Files

Professor Grant Thrall provides guidance on where to find property assessment data files in the USA. An example property assessment data file is accessed and brought into the GIS software. Subsets of the parcel polygon file are created for faster analysis. A flat file DBF is joined to the parcel polygon file using the common fields of PIN and PARCEL, both representing "Parcel Identification Number"