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Projects The following GIS
Projects are currently underway in Genesee County. .Click
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Projects The following GIS
Projects are currently underway in Genesee County. .Click
on the arrows to learn more.
In 2005, Genesee
County built a partnership and coordinated a project with its local
units of government to advance GIS throughout the County, minimize the
duplication of efforts, and bring significant This initiative,
called the Genesee County Pictometry and Orthoimagery Project, combines
a number of products and services to support both development and deploym
Projects The following GIS
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As part of the U.S.
Public Land Survey System, section corners are a necessary component
for defining boundaries of land ownership in Genesee County. To improve
the overall accuracy and usefulness of the Genesee C The Genesee County Road Commission, with help from the GIS Working Group, has initiated a project to capture GPS coordinates on all remonumented section corners in the County. The Road Commission is using survey grade GPS equipment along with the new CORS towers located in the county to acquire sub-centimeter accurate readings. Projects The following GIS
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Over the past forty
years, county wide aerial photography has been collected seven times
(1966, 1977, 1982, 1987, 1992, 1997, and 2002) with another flight sched
Projects The following GIS
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For years Genesee
County sorely needed a road centerline layer. Unfortunately previous
cost estimates provided by consultants to develop such a layer were
beyond the County’s GIS budget. Without the money to fund such
an expensive project or the staff to create a layer in-house, Genesee
County opted to use the State of Michigan’s Geographic Framework.
Although suitable for official transportation and Act 51 purposes, the
Framework needed some improvement before it could meet all of the County’s
GIS needs. To help improve the Framework and increase its overall accuracy, a partnership was established with the State of Michigan’s Center for Geographic Information (MCGI) to produce a better road centerline product. Genesee County provided its high-resolution orthophotos and parcel base map to MCGI to help with missing streets, incorrect address ranges, and features in need of repositioning. A workflow plan was created to insure that the most recent information about the road network in Genesee County would be available to those editing the Framework. As updates are identified by the County, they are submitted to MCGI and are then incorporated into the Framework before its official release. Currently, arrangements are being made with MCGI to receive regular updates of the Framework between its official releases so that the County can benefit from improvements made along the way. Projects The following GIS
Projects are currently underway in Genesee County. .Click
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is working on a five year program to update the nation’s floodplain maps, and has selected Genesee County to be one of its study communities. Initial meetings with FEMA, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), Genesee County Departments, and local communities took place during the summer of 2005 to develop a scope of work for the study. Genesee County Departments will provide FEMA and participating consultants with local GIS data, such as high-resolution digital orthoimagery and 2 foot contours, to assist with the study and mapping program. Existing 100 and 500 year floodplains are expected to change as a result of the study and its use of the more accurate local data. Once complete, the project will have produced new Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps (DFIRMS) that can be incorporated into the County’s GIS.
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