Acquiring location data for TIFs

[victorcassone2]

There doesn't appear to be any open data portals that provide TIF location data.

[jhannah]

Here's all the location data from the database (PAD TIF CSV files): https://gist.github.com/jhannah/6c0da1873f418c4126f6a1dd35b9a021

If someone could turn that into latitude / longitude points / polygons that would be awesome, I'd love to Google Map all TIFs in Nebraska. Doing so (afaict) would take LOTS of manual labor. If there are automation opportunities I'm not aware of them.

[jhannah]

Oh -- so what we probably COULD do "fairly easily" is just geolocate all the counties + cities -- and put a big grand total $ amount of all TIFs on a map of Nebraska.

[jhannah]

Presumably 2-4 hours with the Google Geocoding API could get us a lat/long for each county + city.

[victorcassone2]

Theoretically, the GIS department should have this data on their open portal. http://data-dogis.opendata.arcgis.com/

I reached out and here's the response...

The TIF layer is maintained by the Planning Department. I reached out the person in charge of the TIF project, but she did not grant permission to share. She does not want to release the layer before it is ready, and she doesn't have a time frame for when that will be.

[jhannah]

The only map of Nebraska TIFs I know about: Midtown properties (some in progress) supported by TIF since 2007. It's awesome! :D

On Apr 9, 2018, at 2:12 PM, Smith, Patrick [email protected] wrote:

Sure is my map. Reporter Cindy Gonzalez and I worked together using city planning data and her reporting to get the data. Not sure how helpful that is. How can I help?
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I think you're giving me a bit too much credit. This was a few years back, but I'm almost certain it isn't formally geolocated. A smarter person probably would have done it that way.
This was me taking addresses and known data about the projects and drawing boundaries for each one. Years later, your email has validated my effort! Maybe.

[victorcassone2]

I'm reaching out to the planning department to see what data they plan on using for the TIF map layer.

[jhannah]

April 10 @elviejito wrote:

Here's the 2017 City Planning CRA map - https://planning.cityofomaha.org/images/stories/MAPS/Maps_083017/Community_Redev_Areas_for_Web.pdf
Other interesting maps are found at https://planning.cityofomaha.org/maps. I also have a copy of the 2010 City Planning TIF map on my computer. It actually shows TIF projects as of 2010.
On the CRA map, Community Redevelopment Areas are what the City is now calling what used to be known as "blighted areas".