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Parcel ID formats

A parcel can have more than one number: the assessor's CAMA number and the map-lot ID from the town's GIS. Parcel ID formats, in the Town group under Settings, lists the numbers the town uses. Imports use these formats to match rows in a file to the right parcel, and one of them is the ID shown on parcel pages.

Chiban ships with two formats: CAMA number, exactly 15 digits, and Map-lot ID, exactly 12 digits. Leading zeros count. In Alder Pond the CAMA number is on 63 parcels and the Map-lot ID on 62, and the Map-lot ID is the one shown on parcels.

Add or change a format​

  • Add a format asks for a Short name in lowercase letters, digits and underscores, for example cama15, which cannot be changed later. It then asks for a Name staff will see, whether Characters allowed are digits only or any text, and for digits a Number of digits. Leave the number blank to accept any number of digits.
  • Edit changes the name and the shape.
  • Show this ID makes a format the one shown on parcel pages.
  • Delete appears only for a format no parcel ID uses yet.

Set the formats up before you load owners from the assessing office, because the ID column in that file is matched against them. See loading owners from the assessing file.

When a number is wrong for one parcel​

If a folder label or an old record uses a number that does not match the parcel in Chiban, add a parcel ID override. It points that ID at the right parcel, and imports never overwrite it. See overrides.