Presenter demos 'Beacon' county data platform; Supervisor asks about pricing and setup
Schneider Geospatial's Ryan Smith demonstrated the Beacon platform for county boards, showing parcel reports, soil and cemetery layers and document access; he said Beacon is live in roughly 85 of Iowa's 99 counties and that deployment typically takes 4—6 weeks. Supervisors asked about integration with local vendors and per-parcel pricing.
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Ryan Smith of Schneider Geospatial presented the company's Beacon platform to the Tama County Board of Supervisors, demonstrating property search, GIS layers, document access and tools for generating address labels for project notifications. "Beacon is currently in about 85 counties out of the 99," Smith said, describing the product as an aggregation layer that pulls assessor, tax and GIS data into a single public-facing portal.
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