Our digital tax maps supply data for entire municipalities and are not appropriate for individual property owners. You can stop by our Tax Map Office at 32 North Russell Road Albany (off Central Avenue, next to Westgate Plaza) to obtain printed tax maps suitable for the needs of most individual owners.

A tax map is a special purpose map, accurately drawn to scale showing all the real property parcels within a city, town or village. These maps are used to locate parcels and obtain other information required in assessment work. The size, shape and dimensions (or acreage) of a parcel may be found on a tax map. Tax maps are primarily used by local governments to maintain a current inventory of all parcels in a city, town or village.

While our tax maps were developed for assessment purposes, digital mapping information has a wide variety of uses. The map data offered here, when combined with other Graphical Information System (GIS) data, could form the basic building blocks for displaying and using all types of location-based information in the County of Albany.

The Albany County Tax Map Conversion Project began in February of 1999 and culminated in the summer of 2001 with final delivery of digital products. These digital data sets were produced by digitizing scanned images of the original Mylar tax map sheets. These images were registered to their true ground location, and drawn in survey feet.

Albany County maintains digital tax maps in two formats: AutoCAD© v2000 .DWG files, and ArcView© .SHP files.

There are no charges for NYS GIS Data Sharing Cooperative members with account ID. For all others, a license agreement for the use of these files must be signed, and the below charges apply.

For more information about obtaining commercial digital tax maps, please contact John K. Davis at (518) 447-4882, or by e-mail: john.davis@albanycounty.com.

For more information about tax mapping, please contact the Albany County Real Property Tax Service Agency Tax Map Office at (518) 487-5350.