Cadastral Information For GIS Specialists

Part Two - Cadastral Information

Example - Wyoming Coal Leasing and Private Land

For an in depth example of the scope of cadastral information in GIS use, assume for the moment that you are a GIS Specialist working in the State of Wyoming. A broad scale land planning project is about to begin, and you have been asked to use the GIS to depict the complexity of land uses, rights, and activities for private land holdings as they relate to:

Private Land Ownership
Public Land
Coal leasing
Oil and gas
Wildlife

Your job would be to assemble the appropriate spatial data, and then use it to illustrate the land situation. Because of Wyoming’s size, and because of the complexity of activities taking place on the land in Wyoming, you decide, before depicting a large region, to have a look at a specific township in Campbell County.

Assembling the spatial data, you are able to locate numerous themes, which you have narrowed down to the following list for this project:

Land ownership
Township lines based on GCDB
Various wildlife nesting, roosting and migration themes
Pipelines
Oil and gas leases
Mines
Cbm wells
Gas wells production
Oil and Gas exploration units
BLM Land exchanges
BLM acquired lands
Coal leases
GCDB points

The links below show the complexity of land use activities and rights in the area which you would be able to depict with the spatial data you have collected.

Coal
Oil and Gas
Ownership
Surface Ownership And Subsurface Mineral Rights
Wildlife, and Summary

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Table Of Contents - Cadastral Information For GIS Specialists

Links to the other Cadastral Courses:
Learning The Cadastral Data Content Standard
County Recorders And The Cadastral Data Content Standard
Surveyors And The Cadastral Data Content Standard

Presented by the United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management, and

the Federal Geographic Data Committee Cadastral Subcommittee