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All Together Now
The Town of Brownsburg lacked a GIS that could be used both internally by Town personnel as well as externally by the public. Their data resided in CAD files and paper maps which did not overlay geographically and couldn’t be used with existing County, State, and Federal data sources to help understand the relationships between land, resources, utilities, transportation, zoning and other infrastructure and cadastral features and make timely, accurate determinations about them. Department personnel and their constituents needed to be able to share information, maximize resources, and get quality results from the decisions based on them.
The Town of Brownsburg decided to take action with their Beacon deployment: an interactive public access tool that allows users to view County information, public records and GIS via an online portal. The Hendricks County Beacon™ portal features a public site that includes important property taxation and assessment information, in-depth search capabilities and robust property reports. It also provides users the ability to view an interactive map of the County’s GIS data and aerial photography as well as convenient tools to collect specific parcel information. The site features detailed infrastructure and public works information, including the location of streets, utility and sewer facilities.
Results
As a result of their beacon web mapping portal deployment, the Town of Brownsburg got on-board with the County and two other Towns, enabling cost reductions in web hosting, data conversion, and data flow streamlining. The Town can now share data between departments and with the public using their own browser software and internet connections, anywhere, anytime, 24 hours a day, and 365 days a year. The Town also now has a framework in place to capture future developments, track new projects, and to communicate new information to the public. “By working together with the towns in Hendricks County, we are able to leverage data sharing in the Beacon™ solution,” said Mike Graham, county administrator, Hendricks Country. “Now towns can access parcel data through the county application, and the county can access the public works data in the town application. The result is a very robust product at a lower cost than if any governmental entity purchased it separately.”