GIS - Mapping
The goal of this department is to have a public, Web-based, real-time, one-site point-of-access to parcel and assessment data, flood data, district information and other pertinent data.
DISCLAIMER:
The User waives any/all responsibility of any government agency, explicit or implied, for any damages or liabilities caused through the use of the data in any way. The Parish shall not be liable for any occurrence or activity relating to the data including, but not limited to, lost time, lost profits, fitness of the data for a particular purpose, installation of the data, or results obtained from any use of the data.
Individuals or companies may download maps on this site and may reproduce the information for internal use. The sale of data from this site is strictly prohibited.
The data presented on this website are not survey products. Parcel and/or lot boundaries displayed are not to be used for legal purposes.
This map should not be used for Conveyance, Sales, or the basis for the issuance of a permit.
GIS, or Geographic Information System (GIS) lets us visualize data on a map. This data is both spatial and attribute. Spatial data references the location while attribute data is the information about the source. For example: The map shows either the actual rooftop of Hammond High School or a reference point on the map. That is spatial data. Then you may find the information about that school, such as name and number of students, in a tab field. That is attribute data. When the two fields are used together, GIS becomes an effective tool in problem solving.
Tangipahoa Parish Government created its first GIS Department in 2008, with one GIS Specialist working to assemble various forms of data including parcels, wards, flood zones, districts and many others. These are combined to create a dynamic resource when searching for both the physical locations of geographic features, and the attributes that correspond to those features.
The department is using the most commonly known, world-renowned suite of mapping software, ArcGIS (a product of the Environmental Standards Research Institute, or ESRI) to incorporate data from several Parish departments, such as the Clerk of Court, Assessor, Registrar, 911, Emergency Management and Tangipahoa Economic Development, as well as state and federal agencies, such as the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, FEMA and the U.S. Department of Transportation. We have also reached out to local utilities, to include data such as power, sewer, water and gas availability.
The GIS system is currently being used to share information between Parish Government departments, such as in providing a Web-based mapping service to the Permit Office that layers the latest FEMA digital flood data over the Clerk's parcel and assessment data. This has helped the Permit Office to render more timely and accurate flood zone determinations for their customers.