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BSI LAUNCHES NATIONAL COUNTY ANNUAL REPORT DATABASES (NCARD)

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An Open Records panel facilitated by Boundary Solutions, Inc. at the IAAO ’08 National Conference responded to a question posed by the IAAO conference committee: “Does unconstrained sharing of digital cadastral databases stimulate the economy?” Based on 440 county annual report records, BSI reported that the average total property valuation of all residential and nonresidential parcels in an open record county (sharing their digital parcel map at <$250) grew substantially faster than the average closed record county from 2001 to 2006. These findings caused enough interest that IAAO requested that the proceedings be expanded into an article for IAAO’s organizational magazine, FAIR & Equitable.

To prepare for this article, BSI expanded the annual report records from 440 to 2,784 provided by the individual revenue departments of 46 states; nearly 100% of the total 3,140 USA county records. The resulting National County Annual Reports Database (NCARD) may be downloaded as an Excel spreadsheet, free of charge.

first published week of:   01/19/2009

National Grid Gas Selects ESRI GIS to Improve Operational Efficiency and Enhance Customer Service

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National Grid Gas in the United Kingdom recently selected ESRI geographic information system (GIS) software for its gas distribution front-office transformation program. With ESRI GIS and other IT upgrades, National Grid plans to improve operational efficiency and enhance customer service. National Grid chose ESRI (UK) Ltd. from a global pool of all major GIS vendors.

“We ran a robust process to ensure we selected the best GIS product and supplier to deliver our requirements and also deliver the geospatial components into a wider business transformation program,” said Corinne Lury, senior IT manager at National Grid. “From a technical perspective, integration is key, requiring close working between all our product vendors. We are pleased to be working with ESRI as we move forward on our exciting journey”

first published week of:   10/19/2009

NAVTEQ Incorporates Community Feedback with NAVTEQ Map Reporter™

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Over one hundred million times a day, consumers turn to NAVTEQ® maps. With the largest consumer base of digital map users, NAVTEQ has access to a user community of potential reporters  throughout the world who can provide feedback directly to the company. NAVTEQ has been incorporating community feedback since 1997 through an end-user update program. In 2006, NAVTEQ formalized the process with the launch of the NAVTEQ Map Reporter, an online map-based update portal through which anyone can submit changes and updates to the NAVTEQ map.

NAVTEQ Map Reporter represents a valuable part of NAVTEQ’s overall database maintenance and quality improvement activities, enabling a highly accurate, reliable map. An intuitive map-based interface provides users with an easy method for pinpointing the exact location of possible concern. Several other fields allow users to specify the type of feedback (e.g., address, Point of Interest, road feature, traffic restriction) and the specific map or system being used. There is also an open field for comments, and the site also has the capability to upload user-attached files for further clarification. The last step in the process gives users the option of providing NAVTEQ with an email address, which is used to provide the user with updates on the status of the submitted report.

first published week of:   04/20/2009

NCARD to Examine Impact of Open Parcel Map Records on Tax Base During the Burst and the Bubble

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In 2009, as a run up to examining a BSI hunch that open record digital parcel map counties enjoy greater tax base growth than closed, BSI assembled metrics for near every USA county from 2001-2006: CBSA designation, license fee, total permits issued, population and the total assessed value of all parcels in each county for each year. The resulting National County Annual Report Database (NCARD), posted online for anyone to use, was used to examine the above premise.

So far NCARD numbers communicate that property tax base growth rate curves for open and closed record counties grow apart, with open record counties enjoying on average, 27% more growth. These numbers describe this correlation during the bubble, now the same measurements are being added to Year 2007 so studying how things look during the burst can begin. BSI urges industry to download this NCARD speadsheet to study the bubble and in due time study the whole market meltdown.

first published week of:   05/11/2009

New Jersey Office of Geographic Information Systems Benefits from LizardTech™ Geospatial Tools

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LizardTech, a division of Celartem Inc. and a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial data, announced that the State of New Jersey Office of Geographic Information Systems (OGIS) purchased Express Server, one of the LizardTech Express Suite™ line of products, to provide an easier and faster way of streaming orthophotos throughout the state of New Jersey.

Every five years, OGIS flies over the entire state of New Jersey to update the several sets of orthophotos archived over the past decade and a half. This resulted in a substantial archive of over 900 gigabytes of losslessly compressed JP2 files, which were created with LizardTech GeoExpress™, another Express Suite product, and are stored on a SAN. OGIS needed an extensible solution which would provide easy access to this imagery as well as all future datasets for state residents, the GIS community, and the online public. The solution needed to enable WMS access to imagery from file-based storage for easy image management.

“Our project was to provide an easier way of streaming the State of New Jersey orthophotography for our users,” said John Macready, geographic information systems specialist for OGIS. “We evaluated a small group of vendors using development time, level of functionality, performance, software reliability and platform support as criteria and concluded that LizardTech's Express Server was the best solution for us, meeting all of the criteria we required.”

“Express Server is designed to serve more users in less time using widely adapted standards and familiar tools without adding hardware or buying more bandwidth,” said Jon Skiffington, LizardTech director of marketing. “That’s why Express Server was the perfect solution to the very challenging problem that OGIS was facing. It allowed their users to instantly access aerial photography for online use or in their software packages for viewing and downloading.”

first published week of:   09/28/2009

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