My local volunteer fire department purchased a copy of Depiction asked me to help them with a project.  The fire chief had several things he wanted to do with the software but the first one was to create a map of all of the parcels in the district and then add to it the ownership information.  He had received two files from the local county GIS department: a shape file of all of the parcel boundaries and a database file of the ownership information from the assessor.

The challenge was to get the shape file data loaded and  then geo-code the address data.

The first challenge was to get the shape file loaded.  The main issue here was because of the shape of the fire district in order to get the entire district in one story also meant getting non-district territory included...

Click here to read more.