Commissioners approve Schneider Geospatial 'Beacon' contract after presentation on mapping, EagleView integration
After a demonstration of Beacon — a web portal for parcels, permitting and public transparency — commissioners approved a contract with Schneider Geospatial: a $6,650 setup fee and a first‑year hosting/maintenance cost of $13,740, with annual costs thereafter.
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County staff and a Schneider Geospatial representative presented Beacon, a web portal that consolidates county GIS layers, documents and third‑party imagery. Tara Berg introduced the project and Schneider account representative Ryan Smith demonstrated features including nightly data updates, EagleView imagery integration, tax distribution visualizations, searchable parcel tools, and specialty mapping useful for emergency management and tourism.
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