Saving Time and Money with ParcelQuest Gateway
For professionals working with land and property data—whether that’s city planning, real estate, utilities, environmental analysis, or any other field—access to authoritative and up-to-date ownership and parcel data is essential. However, getting this information can be a major headache.
County records aren’t always updated regularly, data formats vary widely, and trying to piece together comprehensive datasets is time-consuming and costly.
Sure. You could spend countless hours gathering ownership records, cleaning and sanitizing the data, and integrating it into your workflow. And there’s no doubt it would be polished when you were done. But in that time, projects are slowing down and your to-do list is growing.
There’s a better way to stay up to date without breaking a sweat.
Compiling Parcel Data Doesn’t Actually Need to Make You Pull Your Hair Out
If you’ve ever tried to compile ownership and parcel data from multiple counties, you already know how frustrating it can be. Each county has its own way of managing and formatting data. Some counties provide access through online portals or various downloadable formats, and some require custom requests to access their records. Even when you obtain the data, it may be incomplete, poorly formatted, or incompatible with your mapping software.
If you need to merge multiple datasets, you’ll need to make many considerations such as: how to preserve the original dataset, analyze if they are compatible data types and mapping attributes. You’ll end up spending a lot of time on data clean-up, formatting data and mergers just to get the data ready for the project you need to begin.
So we’ll let you in on a secret: You don’t have to do any of that.
ParcelQuest Gateway: The Closest Thing to Magic in the Whole World
If you’re already using ArcGIS for your day-to-day workflow, you can make your whole life easier by taking advantage of ParcelQuest Gateway, our parcel feature service that can be queried directly into your Esri environment.
Here’s how it helps:
- Daily Updates: Unlike data sources that may update once a year, ParcelQuest Gateway provides ownership data updates within 24 hours, ensuring you’re always working with the latest information.
- Statewide Coverage: Gateway includes data for all 58 California counties, eliminating the need to gather and consolidate records from multiple jurisdictions.
- Standardized & Ready-to-Use: No more cleaning up messy datasets. Gateway’s parcel data is already cleaned and standardized for seamless GIS integration.
- Easy ESRI Integration: Delivered as a hosted feature layer in the Esri ecosystem, Gateway can be accessed instantly, eliminating the need for manual data imports or processing.
- Save Money on Data Storage: Maintaining parcel data on your own servers can be expensive. ParcelQuest hosts this massive dataset on our servers, reducing the cost of Esri’s credit-based storage system or the need to maintain your own infrastructure.
- Multi-platform Access: Gateway can be used beyond ArcGIS Online—whether for web apps, standalone GIS applications, or online and enterprise portals, making it incredibly flexible for different use cases.
ParcelQuest has been the authoritative source of California parcel data for decades. Thanks to our strong relationships with assessors in all 58 counties means we get real-time updates of ownership changes, redrawn parcel boundaries, new zoning codes, and more.
Our in-house GIS team ensures those changes are accurately mapped and reflected in our parcel feature layer. That means that you can trust the data you access through ParcelQuest Gateway every time you use it.
Seeing is Believing
If you’re tired of dealing with outdated ownership data, fragmented county records, and the hassle of manual data integration, it’s time to try ParcelQuest Gateway. Let us handle what we do best—data collection, formatting, and updates—so you can focus on what you do best.
Call us at 1-888-217-8999 to get a custom quote for your operation.