Emmons County, North Dakota, has selected The Sidwell Company to provide professional GIS services to meet compliance with North Dakota’s state-mandated agricultural assessment standards. Sidwell will provide the jurisdiction with agricultural parcel file development services by creating a digital GIS parcel file for all of the county’s agricultural parcels that calculates soils valuations, to be used in conjunction with the soils map layer, to support soils computations using the Farmland Assessment and Report Management System (FARMS®)—an ArcGIS®-compliant software solution for agricultural tax assessments. The firm will further enhance Emmons County’s GIS data in the urban areas by adding annotation such as lot and block numbers and subdivision names to the GIS files. As the Midwest Distributor for Ashtech (formerly Magellan) Professional GPS Solutions, Sidwell will also provide Emmons County with a GPS unit that will be used for the purposes of locating points in their GIS and mapping county infrastructure, such as bridges, culverts, etc. Read More