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In spring 2002, Teranet Enterprises Inc., the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC), and the Ontario Government (the Ministry of Natural Resources) reached an agreement to gather information about Ontario’s estimated four million land parcels and bring this knowledge together into a standardized digital database — the Ontario Parcel database.

The Ontario Parcel database contains boundaries, and identifiers such as assessment roll number (ARN) or property identification number (PIN), which can link to ownership, and assessed value information for each individual property, or “parcel” of land, in Ontario.

Ontario municipalities and high-tech firms will be the primary beneficiaries of the Ontario Parcel mapping. Among other things, the Ontario Parcel data has application in property assessment and taxation, land registration, land use planning, land management and business planning. Both public and private organizations will find that the Ontario Parcel mapping is an excellent resource, which can be put to work with other data to improve corporate planning, reduce costs, conserve resources, plan for sustainable growth and identify new business opportunities.

To find out more, please visit www.ontarioparcel.ca