What are the advantages of the OPA for municipalities?
The OPA will be a one-stop shopping source of maintained and standardized, assessment, ownership and Crown parcel data. The Ontario Parcel will be licenced to municipalities at no cost. It will allow municipalities to focus on using parcel information in support of municipal business, (land development, planning, taxation, public works, etc) rather than on maintaining parcel data. It will have the potential of reducing costs for those municipalities which are currently paying (internally or through outsourcing) for parcel mapping maintenance. It will provide the foundation data to move to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in support of municipal business for those municipalities which do not currently have GIS. The OPA will also allow for easy integration of other data.
