View Skagit County parcel information on Google maps
While trail building with Mount Vernon Trail Builders I wanted to view the boundaries of Little Mountain Park and learn who owned the neighboring properties. The city had a website for viewing this, but it only worked with a special plugin that worked in Internet Explorer on Windows. Being on a Mac this was non-ideal for me. I really wanted to see this information on a Google map. I received permission from the county assessor's office to download the parcel information. I was able to import this into my own Postgres database. I then wrote a small web application in Java that makes use of the Google Maps API to display the parcel information wherever the user clicks on the map.
You can view it here.