The San Juan County Public Works Department today announced the deployment of the Polaris Property Search Internet Mapping Application.

The Polaris Property Search is available to the public at: https://www.sjcgis.org/ or by clicking on Polaris Mapping Application link on the County website.

The new application replaces Polaris Express and includes additional data layers, including wetlands, land use, density, 20’ contours, public land survey system (section, township, and range), sales date and price, and links directly to the County’s recorded document search.

In addition, browser support has been expanded to include Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3.x, and is compatible with the Windows 7 operating system. The site includes an online help menu and answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) to assist users in learning the new application.

Polaris Property Search contains the following data layers: June 2008 aerial photographs, legal parcels and tax parcels, buildings (addresses), driveways, roads, town of Friday Harbor boundary and building footprints, lakes, ferry routes and terminals, digital elevation model and hillshade, Public Land Survey System, 20’ contours, wetlands, and the Comprehensive Plan.

Functionality:

Besides the basic panning and zooming tools, Polaris Property Search also enables the user to:

• Search by address, parcel, road, or island

• Specify a scale (1:1200) or choose from pre-selected scales

• Identify all layers and information present at a given location (instead of just parcel information)

• Obtain the coordinates of any point desired in decimal degrees, degrees minutes seconds, or state plane

• Measure a distance and area in a variety of units

• Draw or make notes on the map using mark up tools

• Save a map extent (including mark ups) and e-mail the link to a friend

• Print the map using a specified map title in either landscape or portrait

• Search recorded documents