Why Gateway is the Superior Parcel Feature Service

We’ve talked before about how ParcelQuest Gateway is the only parcel feature service powered by authoritative California parcel data. But what does that mean, exactly? Why is it such a game-changer for ArcGIS users? And why can’t we stop climbing onto rooftops to shout about it?

Get the Parcel Data You Need in Fewer Steps

Let’s say your agency is working on a big project. You’ve already started your project in ArcGIS, but now you need a parcel feature service containing accurate ownership and address information. What do you do next?

You could cross your fingers and hope the parcel feature service you used last year is good enough. But you quickly realize it’s missing the ownership information you need, and you’re also not convinced the parcel layer has been updated any time in the last year or two.

So maybe you decide to update the information yourself. You trudge over to the county assessor’s office and dig up the information you need, then sit down to painstakingly update the parcel ownership by hand. You end up with carpal tunnel syndrome and lose a day of progress on your project, but at least you know the data is accurate.

Or maybe you’ve seen the light and started using your subscription to ParcelQuest Online to look up your California parcel data. But downloading thousands of parcel shapes from ParcelQuest Online and uploading them into ArcGIS is just plain impossible. You could run both programs at once and tab back and forth between them while you write down a list somewhere else…but honestly, who has time for all that?

Good Foundations Make Everything Better

We launched ParcelQuest Gateway to solve a problem we heard often within the Esri community: GIS professionals whose daily workflow mainly exists in ArcGIS wanted the convenience of an up-to-date, property feature service. So that’s exactly what we did.

Gateway can serve as the ultimate, daily updated, authoritative parcel feature service available within your ESRI environment. All the other data layers you use can be overlaid, and you can use ParcelQuest Gateway as the jumping-off point for your data analysis.

It’s a parcel feature service, which means we’re updating it constantly in real time. Parcel data gets checked and updated daily, and our on-staff team of GIS Specialists update our parcel layer within a month of any changes.

It’s the most up-to-date, accurate, and authoritative source of California parcel information you’ll find in ArcGIS, and once you’re set up, you don’t have to do anything to keep it updated. We do all that work on our end, and you just access it when you need it.

Are you an existing ParcelQuest subscriber looking for an integrated option? An ArcGiS user who needs a reliable parcel feature service? Someone else who loves parcels as passionately as we do? Whoever you are, we can help you figure out the solution that makes the most sense for your organization and workflow. Call us today for a free quote: 1-888-217-8999.