About RLID
The Regional Land Information Database (RLID) is the product of more than 35 years of collaboration among local government agencies in Lane County. It is one of the fruits of the successful partnership of Lane County, the cities of Eugene and Springfield, the Eugene Water & Electric Board (EWEB), Lane Council of Governments (LCOG) and LCOG's extended family of member agencies. The partnership is unique within the State of Oregon and noteworthy on a broader national scale for its long history of successes in the regional development and sharing of geographic information that is fundamental to the workings of government.RLID has many faces. For the partner agencies it is a framework for interagency collaboration and sharing. It is also a central repository of shared regional data that streamlines access and promotes efficiency. The partners have proven that they can reduce costly and wasteful redundancies in systems acquisitions, data development and maintenance efforts, and specialized human resources. For other public and private agencies throughout the region, RLID is a valued resource and useful set of tools for querying, analyzing, mapping and reporting information within Lane County. For the public it is evidence of their representative governments coming together in meaningful ways to improve both the quality of the information they collect and maintain and the effectiveness with which they apply it in their daily operations.
In 1999, in response to Y2K and associated computer technology changes, a new web-based query and reporting system of the same name (RLID) was developed. The new Internet system provided access to data from a number of mainframe systems that would be retired at the outset of the year 2000. Soon, the RLID web system was made available on a paid subscription basis to new public and private agencies including local commercial users and members of the public. Since then, RLID usage has seen steady growth and subscriber revenues have become increasingly important to funding the continued development of the system. Today, this public-private collaboration enables both government and commercial users to enjoy a valued information resource while, at the same time, enhancing the overall quality of land information in the region.
In summary, RLID is a valuable central data repository that includes an expanding suite of tools for understanding, visualizing and reporting Lane County land records. RLID's continued success is made possible by the long-standing and successful partnerships that promote collaboration and sharing among the region's government agencies as well as the continued support of RLID users whose needs will continue to drive the system's development and future innovation.
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