GIS Blog / 21.02.2020

They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. This is true even in the world of data visualization. I have long been a big fan of the data visualizations that the website FiveThirtyEight creates for its stories. Their maps...

GIS Blog / 13.12.2019

Short and sweet update, and an early Christmas present: The parcels for the City of Slidell have been added to the St. Tammany Parish Assessor's Parcel Map. You can find these parcels on the Assessor's Parcel Map here....

GIS Blog / 09.10.2019

The STPAO GIS Department has been sizing up 100,000 Assessment Number features as a milestone for quite some time now. We are happy to finally report that we finally can put that goal behind us. Thanks to a tremendous September, there...

GIS Blog / 19.08.2019

Over the course of the past 12 months, STPAO GIS has added 4,232 new parcels to the Assessor's Geographic Information System for an average of 350+ new parcels added per month. At that rate, we should pass 100,000 Assessment Numbers...

GIS Blog / 19.06.2019

As STPAO GIS continues to fill in the Assessor's online parcel map, you may find it more and more useful. There are a number of ways to use the map that we already have documented, and today I want to share another...

GIS Blog / 08.02.2019

Covington parcels have been added to STPAO GIS and now are showing up on the online parcel map: From this point forward, STPAO GIS will be maintaining parcel data for Tax District 6. And now that Covington and Mandeville are in the...

GIS Blog / 15.11.2018

In September's newsletter, we shared a static map showing the GIS Department's percentage complete by Tax District. It was a simple snapshot of the raw data that served its purpose as a simple report. Now that report is an interactive web...

GIS Blog / 10.10.2018

If you're looking for Assessment Numbers in Covington and Slidell on the online parcel map, look no further. So where is Mandeville, you ask? Well, we've recently added the Mandeville parcel data to the parcel map. You can find Mandeville's...

GIS Blog / 14.09.2018

The first directive given by the administration to the GIS Department was to focus ownership parcel collection efforts on the land south of Interstate 12. By way of a new reporting measure, it is quite clear where in the Parish...