Frequently Asked Questions
What is RLID?
What purpose does RLID serve?
How do I access RLID?
What are the system requirements for RLID?
What is the Detailed Property Search? What is Lane Maps?
What is the Deeds & Records Index?
What is Taxes Balance Due?
What is the Springfield Lien Docket?
What is Map & Tax Lot History?
What is Eugene Zoning History (CELAND)?
How current are the data in RLID?
Why copy data into a data warehouse like RLID when it already exists in other systems?
Where can I find information about the data available in RLID?What is Lane Query?
How do I find out more?
What is RLID? The Regional Land Information Database (RLID) is the central resource for most land-based information in Lane County. The system comprises a data warehouse of regional land information and a growing number of web-based applications for viewing, querying, analyzing, mapping, and reporting the information.
RLID is a regional system managed and developed by a consortium of agencies in Lane County, Oregon. These agencies have cooperated in development of geographic information systems (GIS) and data for more than 30 years. Consortium members include the cities of Eugene and Springfield, Lane County, the Eugene Water & Electric Board (EWEB), and the Lane Council of Governments (LCOG).
What purpose does RLID serve?RLID was originally developed to provide access to data residing in a number of non-Y2K compliant mainframe systems including the regional site address reference system (ADLIB), County Tax Assessor System (TAIMS), Deeds & Records Index (RECORX), and geocoded land information (ADGEO).
Today, in addition to facilitating access to regionally important land information, RLID is bringing a new generation of geographic analysis tools to the Internet and opening doors to new ways of viewing and analyzing regional land information. Further, regional collaboration on the project is improving intra-agency data integration and streamlining regional data sharing and maintenance.
The web-based applications of RLID provide user-friendly tools for basic data viewing, query, analysis, mapping, and reporting. By using a browser for access, RLID provides a low-cost method for agencies to distribute common information and tools, and for consortium members to reduce total costs for installing, maintaining, and licensing individual workstation (PC) software. Member agencies are also developing their own applications to access information and extract RLID data to populate other business systems. In addition, access via the internet has eliminated the need to provide dedicated data lines for remote and commercial users.
How do I access RLID?RLID is accessible via an intranet for local government users on the regional network. Access for non-partner government and commercial subscribers is via the internet at www.rlid.org. For information on RLID subscription features and costs, click here.
What are the system requirements for RLID?Due to the map and graphics content on the RLID site, a minimum internet connection via 56K modem is needed.
PC users should use Internet Explorer 5.5 sp2 or higher for optimal performance. Netscape Navigator 6.0 or higher can be used for some RLID content but is not recommended.
Macintosh users should have mixed success using the current version of IE or Netscape Navigator depending on the particular RLID content they are accessing.
What is the Detailed Property Search? The Detailed Property Search allows users to access and report on extensive property information. Accessible data includes site address, land use, zoning, administrative and political boundaries, environmental conditions, property ownership, land and improvement values, taxes, property sales, and building characteristics. The system also provides access to available associated image information such as tax maps, subdivision plats, partition maps, and irrevocable petitions. The data are queried from RLID, which contains the best available regional geographic information.
Four methods of property selection are provided:
- Owner name
- Site address
- Lane County assessor account number
- Assessor map and tax lot number
What is Lane Maps? Lane Maps is an online interactive mapping and query system currently based on GeoNorth's MapOptix 4.0 software. The system allows users to explore Lane County and find information from a map view or from database queries. A wide variety of data can be viewed including aerial photography; U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maps; terrain, environmental, administrative, political boundary, and tax lot information. Additional features allow users to create custom sets of properties of interest and print maps or export data into other desktop applications. Lane Maps also generates user-specified buffers around properties of interest to select surrounding properties for notification mailings or other property analyses.
Lane Maps has the following system requirements:
- Internet Explorer 5.5 sp2 or higher browser
- Minimum display resolution of 800 x 600 (1024 x 768 strongly recommended)
- Small fonts display option
What is the Deeds and Records Index?The Deeds and Records Index provides a lookup index of documents recorded in Lane County and corresponding document images. The index is updated nightly and is a good source of information on recent property transactions and recorded events. Recorded information and images can be researched using the following:
- Grantor or grantee name
- Instrument or document number
- Instrument type and year
- Map and tax lot number
What is Taxes Balance Due?The Taxes Balance Due Application provides a real-time connection to the Lane County Assessor's taxation system for the purpose of calculating taxes owing or outstanding tax balances on specified properties. The application generates a tax report that contains selected assessor property information and the tax balance as of a user-specified date. This application is not available to all RLID users.
What is the Springfield Lien Docket? The Springfield Lien Docket Application provides a real-time connection to the City of Springfield's lien docket system for the purpose of calculating outstanding liens on specified properties within the city. The application generates a report containing lien docket summary information including the assessment payoff amount, interest and penalties as of a user-specified date, and payment installments and status.
What is Map and Tax Lot History?The Map and Tax Lot History Application provides a simple look-up utility for records of renumbered assessor tax maps based on information from the former *ATMAP mainframe application. The *ATMAP system was not Y2K compliant and was turned off at the close of 1999. While more recent Lane County tax map renumbering events are not currently maintained in RLID, plans call for improving the currency and usefulness of this application in the future.
What is Eugene Zoning History (CELAND)?The Eugene Zoning History Application provides a simple look-up utility for records of city zoning changes based on information from the former CELAND mainframe application. The CELAND system was not Y2K compliant and was replaced by a new system called ONTRACK. Eugene zoning change events subsequent to 1999 are not currently accessible from this application. Ongoing regional efforts continue to make RLID zoning records 100 percent consistent with Eugene's ONTRACK system.
How current are the data in RLID?The timelines of RLID data are dependent on three principal factors. First, the data maintenance schedule for the source system (varies from one system to another). Second, the frequency with which the files are extracted or copied for RLID ranges from nightly to weekly. And third, the delay time between when a data file is copied from a source system and when it is loaded into RLID, normally 2 to 3 days.
Key data files are extracted and updated in RLID with the following frequency:
Site addresses (weekly)
Tax lots/boundary information (weekly)
Assessor files (weekly)
A&T tax maps and plat maps (weekly)
Deeds and Records Index and Images (nightly)
Map layers (Lane Maps) (weekly)
Why copy data into a data warehouse like RLID when it already exists in other systems?Data are copied into RLID from source systems maintained by the respective member government agencies within the region. Many of these systems do not support external access for security or performance reasons. They are also not typically designed to support the kinds of queries RLID supports, making it difficult for regional users to use the information for their own purposes.
Copying selected data to the RLID data warehouse facilitates integration of the data, making it easier to view information from different systems. Agency users have the choice of independently accessing the RLID data warehouse through their own applications or using the existing RLID web applications.
Where can I find information about the data available in RLID?The Regional Data User Guide contains a limited amount of information (metadata) about the data provided in RLID. Work is ongoing to expand the data documentation content of the User Guide. To access the User Guide application, click here.
Lane Query is an online adhoc query tool. It allows users to create reports containing up to 1,000 properties, based on multiple user-identified requirements. The reports are customizable, allowing the user to select what fields he/she wants displayed, and in what order. The wide variety of user-specified selection criteria include: property location, property values, building characteristics, acreage, zoning, sales price, and sales date; there are also many other fields to choose from. Reports can be printed from HTML, or downloaded to Excel, providing the user with additional editing capability. Lane Query allows users to create:
- Custom mailing lists
- Comparable sales reports
- Reports on properties which meet the user's land and/or structure criteria
- Many other customized reports
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