REMINDER: Parcel 0 plots are only used to identify reference metadata. Owning a Parcel 0 NFT does not give the holder rights to real property or any parcel/plot ownership. See the NFT’s License Agreement for more information.
The GIS world has a ton of Open Source Software available, enabling you to do some incredibly powerful things with free tools. My hope with this page is for you to learn the bare bones basics for how to create a GIS dataset which can be used to extract a variety of metadata.
This isn’t a broad guide to learn all things GIS, it’s a narrowly focused path to success (perhaps that can be expanded with additional funding). In any case, feel free to Contact Me if you have any questions.
Also, a big thank you to CityDAO.io for sponsoring this Public Goods project, while improving Parcel Zero’s GIS data and NFT metadata!
UPDATE: A great deal of the info collected from this project was used in the final Parcel Zero NFTs! Check out the final work product here: CityDAO Parcel Zero - NFT Trait Types & Trait Info
Check out CityDAO’s Parcel Viewer app here: https://parcel-0.citydao.io/
Target audience is technical to technical-ish, with the expectation that you will be able to fumble your way through this tutorial if you are comfortable using a computer (Even if you don’t have a software developer or GIS background).
(Layer > Add Layer > Add Vector Layer) and select the KML file as the Vector Dataset(s) for your Source. For this example we can use CityDAO Parcel Zero.kml from the 2021 Wyoming Parcels provided by the county (made available through the state).
Note that if you have a KMZ file it is a compressed file which will contain a KML (and potentially more files). You can simply extract the file to get the KML. You may want to rename the KMZ file or add a .zip extension to make it easier to extract.