Delaware County Municipal GIS Program

The County maintains a centralized GIS database that stores spatial data relevant to all municipalities within its jurisdiction. This includes data layers such as land parcels, roads, addresses, utilities, zoning information, and other relevant datasets. By centralizing data management, the County ensures consistency, data sharing, and interoperability among the municipalities.

This Municipal Program facilitates data sharing and collaboration among the municipalities. It establishes protocols and standards for data exchange, ensuring that municipalities have access to the authoritative geospatial information. This enables efficient inter-municipal communication, coordination, and decision-making.

The County's Data and Mapping Office develops and maintains GIS applications and tools that are shared among the municipalities. These applications can include interactive mapping portals, online viewers, mobile apps, and other customized tools that address the specific needs of the municipalities. Such applications can be used for property assessment, permitting, code enforcement, and other municipal functions.

The Municipal Program assists municipalities in long-term planning and infrastructure development initiatives. By providing spatial analysis, modeling, and visualization capabilities, the program supports municipalities in assessing growth patterns, transportation planning, environmental impact assessments, and other strategic planning activities.

If a municipality currently has a subscription to an ESRI software, the county can link accounts to collaborate on work for the municipality using professional services.

A.     Free Connection

B. Fees for Professional Services

The County will charge municipalities a fee for acquiring, compiling, and maintaining GIS data on their behalf. This fee covers the cost of data collection, data updates, data storage, and data quality assurance. The fee structure will vary based on the specific datasets required by the municipalities and the time associated with acquiring this data in the field or creation of the data in the County’s software.

A.     Hourly Cost

The Municipal Program offers customized applications or tools tailored to the municipalities' specific needs, there may be a development fee associated with creating and maintaining those applications. The fee is dependent on the time it would take to develop an application and the amount of server storage necessary to serve it out to the public. These applications would be public and easily linked or embedded on a municipal website.

A.     Hourly Cost

B.     Storage Fee

The specific types of geospatial projects/services that the County can offer to municipalities cover a wide range of topics. The specific services the GIS team provides will be tailored on the needs, goals, and priorities of the municipality.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a platform, that creates, manages, analyzes, and maps all types of data. GIS connects data to a map, integrating location data (where things are) with all types of descriptive information (what things are like there). This provides a foundation for mapping and analysis that is used in science and almost every industry. GIS helps users understand patterns, relationships, and geographic context. The benefits include improved communication and efficiency as well as better management and decision making. (ESRI)

Delaware County Office of Data and Mapping Innovation (ODMI), using a Geographic Information Systems, supports departments within the County with custom mapping, interactive applications, and authoritative data to be used in their workflows and engagement with the public. The office always supports and works with local governments, private companies, and the public.

Interested? The GIS team at the Office of Data and Mapping looks forward to providing GIS services and capabilities to all of its municipalities!

Contact Julie DelMuto, GIS Manager at:  delmutoj@co.delaware.pa.us  or 610-891-4497