Plaquemines Parish Web GIS

Plaquemines Parish contracted BKI for a major GIS development project for consisting of six phases over 5 years. The assessment included evaluating and documenting the parish’s existing GIS systems and data, which were essentially non-existent except for general federal and state-level data.  BKI documented the Parish organization, work processes, data flow, hardware and software systems, and existing GIS data sources.  We also met with individual departments to determine the needs for GIS and the types of functions that would increase work performance and efficiency.  From this information, BKI developed a phased approach project plan with schedules, budgets, and a detailed description of the work to be performed.

Based on the approved project plan, phase 2 was implemented consisting primarily of GIS data development of key base map data layers including road centerlines, address points, parish landmarks, and detailed parcel boundary data.  could be linked directly to the tax assessor database.

In Phase 3, BKI continued the development of parcel data and added various major datasets including levee data, planemetric data, and wastewater infrastructure data. 

At the end of Phase 3 of the overall project, BKI implemented ArcGIS Server technology to allow Plaquemines Parish to publish all of its available GIS data on the Parish’s internal network in an Internet Explorer environment.  A map of all available base map and parcel data was created along with several tools to allow users to locate specific addresses or parcels within the Parish. This valuable information is now available directly to personnel in departments such as Engineering, the Tax Assessor, and on large screens in the “war room” of the Emergency Management operations control center and used for disaster preparedness drills.