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The City of Cedar Rapids GIS Easement Project

Upon completion of the City of Cedar Rapids’ parcel basemap, the ITGIS Department within the city accepted the challenge of creating a citywide GIS easement layer from scratch. After research on the topic to better understand the best project approach, it was quickly determined little had been done on GIS easement creation to this point. After two years of work using a trial and error approach, various obstacles and challenges were overcome leaving the ITGIS Department nearing completion of a contiguous attributed easement polygon layer. This information is being shared to help other city/county governments start on creating an easement layer.