4. The Project Put survey, parcel, zoning, address, voting, FIRM, PLSS corner certificates, survey notes, and anything else Mike could find in his office online. Budget - $0
5. Steps 1 Organize Data 9 DVD 43,000 files and around 14GB data Batch convert all TIFF images to PDF Combined multi pages PDF’s where needed
6. Step 2 Uploaded all the PDF’s to NCWRPC’s website and opened up folder level file browsing
7. Step 3 Created a linked PDF report from MS Access database from the county’s survey index. (429 pages)
8. Step 4 Created HTML form to find maps by number using PHP. <html><body> <h4>Retrieve an Oneida County Map!</h4> <form action="/phpsessions/get.php" method="post"> <select name="type"> <option>A</option> <option>B</option> <option>C</option> <option>L</option> <option>R</option> </select> - <input name="number" type="text" /> <input type="submit" /> </form> </body></html> <?php session_save_path("your home directory path"/cgi-bin/tmp); session_start(); $dir = "_Maps"; $type = $_POST['type']; $number = $_POST['number']; echo "<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='0;url=http://www.ncwrpc.org/Oneida_data/Survey_Maps/$type$dir/$type$number.pdf'>"; ?> PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) is a popular general-purpose server side scripting language which can be embedded into HTML to create a wide variety of mini-applications - Open Source / Free
10. Step 6 Search for all survey maps by Town / Range / Section Needed to get the survey index database into an online searchable database MySQL – open source database / FREE!
11. Step 7 Create a PHP script to find all records by Town / Range / Section <?phpsession_start(); $Town = $_POST['Town'];$Range = $_POST['Range'];$Section = $_POST['Section'];$con = mysql_connect('ncwrpc.fatcowmysql.com', 'oneida', 'password');if (!$con) { die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error()); }mysql_select_db("ncwrpc", $con);$sql = "SELECT * FROM `index5` WHERE `MAPID` = $Town$Range$Section LIMIT 0, 500 ";$result = mysql_query($sql);echo "<table border='2' cellpadding='5' cellspacing='2' bordercolor='#000000' bgcolor='#B8B8B8' ><tr><h2>TOWN: $Town N - RANGE: $Range E - SECTION: $Section</h2><th bgcolor=quot;#669999quot;>MAP1</th><th bgcolor=quot;#669999quot;>DESC. 1</th><th bgcolor=quot;#669999quot;>DESC. 2</th><th bgcolor=quot;#669999quot;>REMARKS</th><th bgcolor=quot;#669999quot;>SURVEYOR</th><th bgcolor=quot;#669999quot;>YEAR</th></tr>";…………………………..etc…………………………
16. Summary Free? Have a friend (RPC) with a hosting plan Be a member of the RPC Some knowledge of HTML – Web Servers PHP www.php.net MySQL www.mysql.com Maintenance County staff will FTP new survey, parcel, corner certificates as they become available. (survey index database) Summary Simple way to provide low cost access to records to the public 3000 to 5000 hits per month since it went public