Terra-Map, A Division of Avitar Associates
We provide parcel mapping and GIS consulting to municipalities throughout New Hampshire and Vermont. These services include deed research, digitizing, factor application development and GIS training.
We specialize in integrating spatial tax maps with existing assessor and public works data to create town-wide information systems.
Tax Mapping
Terra-Map creates software solutions that will provide direct links between Windows-based assessing programs and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Terra-Map can link your property appraisal software, including Avitar's Assessing, with ArcView GIS software and digitally stored, seamless parcel maps to give you a wide range of graphics applications.
The software coupled with digital tax maps from Terra-Map, will provide your town with the ability to create maps that are simple to edit and can be used in unlimited ways to expand the assessor’s capabilities and to provide data to the general public. These maps and data provide graphical answers to specific questions and can generate abutters name and address labels.
Especially handy is the ability of assessors to analyze sales for the town, show the results graphically and analyze various neighborhoods for anomalies in assessments. Other types of queries the system will permit include showing the locations of parcels under Current Use and the values and the locations of vacant parcels.
GIS
Terra-Map provides Geographic Information System design and development consulting for local governments and utilities. Whether the application is a municipal assessing database linked to tax maps or owner records describing a powerline right-of-way, the fundamental issue is the same:
How can diverse spatial features and tabular data be combined to solve the infinite challenges that organizations continually face?
At Terra-Map we answer this question every day with customized projects, applications, and data that put the analytical tools at your fingertips. Our solutions help municipal clients plan for the future and determine such factors as adjustments and districting.
Avitar Associates' Acquisition of Terra-Map
Avitar Avitar Associates of Chichester, New Hampshire and Terra-Map of Enfield, New Hampshire announced in December of 2008 that Avitar had acquired Terra-Map. Going forward, the Terra-Map division of Avitar will continue to provide all of the mapping services you have come to rely on from Terra-Map, combined with a level of support and customer service that can be offered by a larger organization.
For those of you who are not familiar with us, Avitar is a New Hampshire based corporation specializing in providing municipal services to a diverse array of New Hampshire and Vermont communities. Avitar was started in 1986 by Gary Roberge to provide professional assessing consulting services to the New Hampshire towns of Lee, New Castle and Rollinsford. Since its inception, in addition to continuing to provide professional assessing services, Avitar has developed its own integrated suite of municipal software applications which today includes products for assessing, tax collections, building permits, utility billing, town clerk and motor vehicle tailored individually for both New Hampshire and Vermont. This development has accelerated since 2000 when Josh Arend joined Avitar’s software division, following six years and countless summers working for his father at Terra-Map.
As we proceed with the process of integrating Terra-Map into Avitar, we are committed to ensuring that you do not experience any inconveniences. Terra-Map’s Enfield office has been closed, so you should direct your calls to Avitar at (603)798-4419. However, Roger will continue to work within the Terra-Map division at Avitar. In the initial months Roger will be working to get the new Terra-Map division of Avitar up to speed on the particulars of each of your tax map specifications and deliverables. With the exception of the addition of the name Avitar to the logo in the corner, you will not notice any changes in the tax maps you receive.
Throughout 2009, we anticipate that Roger’s responsibilities will diminish as the rest of us at Avitar are able to meet all of your mapping needs, allowing him to immerse himself fully in his well-earned retirement. However, while his interaction in the day to day aspects of Terra-Map will, by design, lessen, Roger will continue to be available as an invaluable resource to both Avitar and your community long into the foreseeable future.
At Avitar, we look forward to the opportunity to continue providing you with affordable mapping solutions, while at the same time making the annual process of updating mapping and assessment data as seamless as possible.