CONTACT: Larry Harker, AOC
Currently, the Corner Information Systems (CIS)is in beta state. The application is the final product of the Government Corners Committee which formed approximately 2 years ago. CIS is built on the same platform as AOC's (Integrated Road Information Systems) IRIS. It provides a friendly graphical user interface for indexing and retrieving Government Corner information. Some of the features of CIS are:
CIS is now being tested at selected County Surveyors offices in Oregon and once released will be available to Counties statewide.
County surveyors in Oregon are lawfully responsible for maintaining and restoring government corners (ORS 209.070). A government corner includes Public Land Survey corners such as Township, Section, and Quarter Section corners as well Donation Land Claim (DLC) corners. Each county surveyor is typically responsible for the format of corner restoration forms and the kinds of information recorded about a corner restoration.The BLM has been calculating corner positions in Oregon under several federal projects for the past several years. The BLM has developed data standards for their projects which overlaps with county projects. In addition, the USGS as part of the 7 1/2 minute quad mapping efforts has developed some simple data structures which can be used to describe government corners. The federal government also has several projects as part of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) projects.