FAQs


How does ICIS work?

How is ICIS funded?

What “core data” is included?

What core data does the Province contribute?

What core data is contributed by the Utilities?

What will BC Assessment provide to local governments through ICIS?

How do local governments benefit?

What are Data Agreements?

 

 

How does ICIS work?

All members of ICIS contribute data to ICIS. This data is assembled for use by all members but is still the responsibility and property of each member.

Utility companies and provincial ministries add or modify their data. Local governments can then access the utility and provincial data that relates to their area.

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How is ICIS funded?

Utility members fund 75% of the ICIS budget through their membership fees. The province contributes in-kind resources and membership fees totaling 25% of the budget. Local governments pay no membership fee; they contribute their data, which forms a foundation for all members.

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What “core data” is included?

Core Data includes, with respect to any parcel of land:

  • Information from TRIM;
  • Parcel and interest fabric from Tantalis;
  • Parcel title information from the Land Title system;
  • Location of utility underground infrastructures and above ground poles;
  • Location of municipal infrastructure (e.g. sewer, water);
  • Street address;
  • Legal description;
  • Parcel identifier (PIN or PID);
  • Folio Identification number;
  • Administrative boundaries (electoral areas; local government boundaries, provincial government administration areas, Land Districts; and Land Title Districts.);
  • Agricultural Land Reserve;
  • First Nations Reserves;
  • Provincial and Federal parks;
  • Assessment areas.

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What core data does the Province contribute?

Provincial data will include but will not be limited to,

  • TRIM information,
  • Tantalis information,
  • Administrative boundaries, and
  • Land Title system information, including street address, legal description, parcel identification, folio number.

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What core data is contributed by the Utilities?

Utilities will provide information on location of utility infrastructure and limited attributes.

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What will BC Assessment provide to local governments through ICIS?

BC Assessment will provide:

  1. Assessment layer fabric (AF) incorporated with the Integrated Cadastral fabric (ICF). This will locate and geographically place all Assessment Roll Numbers within a jurisdiction. This includes all locations not registered in LTO such as subsurface rights (Mineral Claims), pipelines, leases on private properties, etc.
  2. Each jurisdiction will be given free software and access to the Assessment Roll through the new Assessment Link BC.

The working relationship between the local assessment office and the jurisdictions will continue as usual as there will be no change in business. The common base map used between BC Assessment and the jurisdictions are expected to improve the quality of the assessment roll.

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How do local governments benefit?

No fee is required by local governments to join ICIS. Utility companies pay 75% of the ICIS costs and the province pays 25%. The utility companies have already invested more than $1 million in this project. In addition to annual membership costs of more than $400,000, the Province has invested to budget of the data compilation group for the past 3 years. This “in-kind” contribution is estimated at $3.5 million.

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What are Data Agreements?

All ICIS members enter into a formal data sharing agreement with the Society and its members.  The agreements protect data copyrights, limit liability and specifiy data sharing terms.  These agreements allow organizations to have one data sharing agreement with many agencies. 

ICIS has developed the following agreements that facilitate the Society’s activities:

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