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How to Use the Teton County MapInfo GIS - Simple Answers to Common questions This document was written primarily for Teton County and Town of Jackson staff.If you are looking for information on using the web-based MapServer, go here.
Querying the GIS To query the ownership and address of a single parcel, use the
Info Tool How To get parcel info for multiple parcels use one of the five Select Tools To find a parcel for a given owner name, pick "Property Owner Name" from
the Query pull-down menu. Enter the owner's
last name and click Okay. MapInfo will search
for all property owners with the specified
name within the open map area. All matching
names will be displayed in a browser window.
From the browser window you may select the
individual owner you are interested in by
picking the black box in the left-hand column
of the browser. The corresponding parcel(s)
will be highlighted in the map window, however
they my be hard to spot. Clicking the eye
glasses button To find a parcel with a given street address, pick the "Street Address Locator"
from the Query pull-down menu, which opens
the "Street Address Search" dialog
box. You may enter the street number, direction
(North, South, East, West), and street name,
or you may use the wildcard character (the
percent sign: %) if you are uncertain of
the exact address. It is not necessary to
enter full street name (i.e. you can leave
off "Street", "Avenue",
"Road", etc.) The street name is
not case sensitive. For example: If you are
working in the Town of Jackson and enter
just "Kelly" in the street name
you will get a browser listing over a hundred
parcels on Kelly Street. If you pick "East"
for the direction pull-down list and enter
"Kelly" for the street name you
will get about 70 parcels. If you enter "3%"
for the number, "East" for the
direction, and "Kelly" for the
name you will get about 5 parcels; all of
the 30's and 300's on East Kelly Avenue.
Pick the desired parcel(s) from the browser
and use the eye glasses button To find a Subdivision, pick the "Subdivision Search"
from the Query pull-down menu, which opens
the "Subdivision Search" dialog
box. You may enter a lot number, or leave
the % symbol in place, which will return all lots.
Enter any part of the subdivision name e.g.
"John Dodge", "Ski Corp",
or "Karns". All matching parcels
will be listed in a browser window. Use the
eye glasses button To find Land Record Information, click on a parcel with the Hot Link tool
To find the Zoning of a given parcel, select "Thematically Map Zoning" from the Map pull-down menu. This will shade the map with the County Land Use Districts, hatch the map with the County Zoning Overlays, and make the zoning and zoning overlay layers selectable. You may turn the zoning off by picking again the "Thematically Map Zoning" from the Map pull-down menu.. When you quit a session that has been thematically mapped, MapInfo may display a dialog box that says "There are unsaved objects in this map. Save to a workspace?" Click the "Discard" button, because the thematic shading does not need to be saved.
To create a map layout at a specific scale:
This technique also works when you insert a map into another document (such as a word processing document). Just determine the width of the target window, and then set the MapInfo Mapper window width to the desired scale multiplied by that width. Printing a Highlighted Selection When an object in a mapper window is selected (or picked), it is highlighted with a red hatch pattern on the screen, however the hatching does not print or plot. The highlighting is just a visual cue which indicates which objects are selected, but it is not a printable component of the map. The following steps explain how to print a hatch selection.
Labeling consists of two steps: setting up the label format and placing the labels on the map. Setting up to Label Open the layer control and select the layer to be labeled, then pick the "Label" button. This opens the "Text Label Options" dialog box, which allows you to set four label format characteristics: The data, visibility, style (font) and position. Data from the "Label with:" pull-down list select the data element to be labeled. For example PIDN or Name1 if you were labeling the Join layer. Note the "Expression" option at the bottom of the pull-down list. Use the "Expression" dialog box to create complex labels using BASIC language functions. Four examples of complex labels follow:
Visibility - The default options are usually fine except that you will probably want to check "Allow Overlapping Text" Style allows you to set the font and the label line options.i) Position defaults are usually fine. Labels can be placed automatically or manually.
To automatically place labels on everything,
check the label check box in the layer control
next to the layer that you want to label.
To manually label individual objects, make
the layer to be labeled current, then pick
the Label button Preparation of Mailing Labels from GIS
Mail Merge requires three file:
All three file are usually put in a folder named: "c:\data\gisnotify" or "c:\data\planning". MailMerge2.MBX and Gisnotify.mdb must be in the same folder. Add the MailMerge2.MBX tool to MapInfo: Tools > Tool Manager > Add Tool 5 foot contours were produced from aerial photography projects in June 1999 and June 2001 . The contours are in the \DEM\5_foot_contours folder. We received 183 tiles in AutoCAD format from the photogrammetrists, which have been aggregated and converted into six MapInfo tables: Contours39N, Contours40N, Contours41N, Contours42N, ContoursAtla, and ContoursBufVal. Kelly is in Contours42N. The contours have two attributes: "Elev", and "Type". Elev is the orthometric height in feet, on the North American Vertical Datum of 1929 (NAVD29), which is a fancy way of saying "elevation". The Type attribute is a three character field. The first character of the type field is either an "X" or an "I". "X" contours are at 25 foot intervals, while "I" contours are the intermediate 5 foot contours. You can query for type "X" contours if you want to make a map showing just 25 foot contours. This would be useful when 5 foot contours are too dense. The second character of the type field is either "O" or is blank. "O" stands for obstructed; where vegetation made it difficult for the photogrammetrist to see the ground. These contours are less reliable. The third character of the type field is either "D" or blank. Type "D" contours are depression contours (holes). |
and click on a parcel.
to select the desired parcels. Multiple
selections are made by holding the <Shift>
key. After selecting all the desired parcels,
pick "New Browser Window" from
the Window pull-down menu, then pick "Selection"
from the Browse Table dialog box. The data
in the browser can be copied to a word processor
by picking "Copy" from the Edit
pull-down menu.
will zoom to the current selection.
(aka the "Lightning Bolt"). This
will open a web browser with detailed information
about land records associated with the parcel.
The web browser also provides scanned images
of the legal documents. You can also search
the site directly at: 
to change the style of the object(s).
on the main toolbar.