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What is an abbreviation?
A single, discrete piece of land having defined physical boundaries and capable of being separately conveyed.
What is a Parcel
A department unit code
What is DUC
A plot of land, generally a subdivision of a city, town, or village block, or some other distinct tract, represented and identified by a recorded plat.
What is a Lot
A Geographic Assisted Mass Appraisal system
What is GAMA
Refers to Parcel or Account ID (number) in GAMA
What is a Folio ID
A display tab which gives users the ability to view the work assigned to their group and the ability to assign work to themselves.
Group Work Queue
A tool in GAMA that allows users to customize search criteria on Parcel, Account or Sale characteristics in GAMA
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A diagram drawn to scale showing all essential data pertaining to the boundaries and subdivisions of a tract of land, as determined by survey or protraction.
What is a Plat
Display tab which gives users the ability to view only the work assigned to them.
What is MyWork Queue
A digital software technology used for the design, drafting and presentation of graphics. It is commonly employed in drafting work for engineering and manufacturing, and may also be used to design maps
What is CAD
Public Land Survey System. A rectangular survey system used in much of the United States dividing land areas into townships of 36 one-square mile sections. Sections can be further subdivided into quarter sections, quarter-quarter sections, or irregular government lots.
What is a PLSS
The process in which a Property Technician interprets a property legal description or Plat and drafts it on an electronic format for illustration and to verify what properties (parcels, Streets, Highways) are going to be altered.
What is a Redline
The result of the sale of property held by single owner such that a division creates different pieces of the property to be owned by different owners. The Assessor’s Office monitors these for the correctness of the property listing/ownership and valuation.
What is Property Split
A 9-digit number, composed of Township, Section, Quarter of a section, Quarter of a quarter section used in Maricopa County Assessor's Office sectional maps
What is a Map ID
Location point of a folio (parcel or account) identified on the map with an icon. Account and Parcel icons are differentiated by color and shape.
What is a Centroid
Improved or unimproved land or lands divided for the purpose of financing, sale or lease, whether immediate or future, into four or more lots, tracts or parcels of land, or, if a new street is involved, any such property which is divided into two or more lots, tracts or parcels of land, or, any such property, the boundaries of which have been fixed by a recorded plat, which is divided into more than two parts
What is a Subdivision
A system of points which are used as fixed references of position (horizontal) or elevation (vertical) or both. These points obtained from ground surveys. These points can be used to rectify the accuracy of cartographic products to the actual area on the ground that is represented. These points takes the size and shape of the earth into consideration.
What is Control (ground and geodetic)
System-applied identification entities. Tags denote a particular process or approved state which has been assigned to a folio.
What are System Tags
Set of related geographic features, such as streets, parcels, or rivers, and the attributes (associated characteristics of those features) logically organized into groups that can be displayed independently.
What is a Layer
The process of projecting the image of a tilted aerial photograph onto a horizontal reference plane to eliminate the image displacement caused by tile of the aerial camera at the time of exposure.
What is Rectification
data storage of X, Y, Z coordinates connected to form points, lines, areas, and volumes. It can be a straight line joining two data points.
What is a Vector
A diagram drawn to scale showing all essential data pertaining to the boundaries and subdivisions of a tract of land, as determined by survey or protraction.
What are Plane rectangular coordinates.
A uniform system of rectilinear lines superimposed on an aerial photograph, map, chart, or other representation of the earth’s surface; used in defining the coordinate positions of points.
What is a Grid
A permanent physical structure marking the location of a survey point or boundary line. Common types are inscribed in metal tablets set in concrete post, solid rock or parts of buildings; distinctive tone posts; and metal rods driven in the ground.
What is a Monument