eMap International Newsletter

In the December 2009 Newsletter, we unveil our new parcel and tax roll product line that features the flexibility and detailed attributes you have requested over the past months; as well as an exclusive high-resolution dataset over the majority of Israel, Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We have also added another regular column to the newsletter written by eMap’s sales manager, View from the Sky, with stories on spots of interest around the globe.

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View from the Sky - Steamboat Springs, CO 80477

Steamboat, Colorado gets its name from the Steamboat Hot Springs located in downtown. The hot springs were notorious for their gurgling and whistling sounds that sounded very similar to a steamboat. While construction for the railroad silenced the Steamboat Hot Springs in 1908, Steamboat still has other active hot springs including the picturesque Strawberry Park Hot Springs about 25 minutes northwest of town. I moved to Steamboat, commonly referred to as “Ski Town USA,” with my family in the fall of 1990 and fell in love with the area and legendary champagne powder for which it’s known. One of the best perks of Steamboat is its remote location as unlike many Colorado resorts, it is located 78 miles from Interstate 70 – most other resorts are just a stone’s throw from the highway.

Sky Rubin
Senior Sales Manager

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Brock Adam McCarty
Vice President
720.470.7988
bmccarty@emap-int.com

Sky Rubin
Sr. Sales Manager
303.720.1726
srubin@emap-int.com

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A Formal Introduction to Our New and Reworked Parcel and Tax Roll Products

After a year of providing the FASS US Parcel Layer to our valued clients, eMap is pleased to announce a significant update and expansion of our parcel and tax roll products. Following up on the sneak peak from last month, in this newsletter we formally introduce completely new and reengineered products as well as provide general pricing information.

Exclusive High-Resolution Imagery Offering – 50 cm and 1 m Data of Israel

Working with an exclusive international partner, eMap is pleased to be the first US-based provider of high-resolution imagery products to offer imagery over Israel with resolution better than 2 meters. Up until today, the only imagery products of Israel available to the US commercial market were collected by high-resolution satellites. While this data is collected at sub-meter resolution, our own US government requires that the data be up-sampled to 2-meter resolution (at best) before it is delivered to our clients.

Newly Released High Resolution Satellite and Aerial Orthomosaics

Each month, eMap has access to newly released digital orthomosaics of aerial imagery inside the United States and the European Union; and to orthomosaics of QuickBird satellite imagery in other international areas. This section introduces all of the aerial and QuickBird imagery datasets released in the last month.

A Word from our CEO – The Clear30 Program, Edition 1

Recently DigitalGlobe, in cooperation with Microsoft, announced a new U.S. and Western Europe wide aerial imagery collection program which is called the Clear30 program. The imagery is to be acquired with the Microsoft/Vexcel UltraCamG digital aerial sensor specifically designed for this program. The Specs: 30-cm, orthorectified and mosaiced natural color with imagery acquisition to begin in early 2010. WOW! If you’re a geospatial professional and this announcement doesn’t get your attention, then you must live on the moon. This program is the largest high-resolution commercial aerial imagery acquisition effort ever undertaken. I could go on and on about the technical specifications but in the end what does it mean to you?

Read more from CEO David K. Nale here »

Word of the Month – Geographic Coordinate System

For the December installment of Word of the Month, we will tackle one of the cornerstones of modern mapping, the Geographic Coordinate System. I’m sure all of you can appreciate the challenges of accurately depicting a round world on a flat paper map or computer screen; and it is the geographic coordinate system that allows us to make this transition.

Geospatial Freebie of the Month – ET GeoWizards 9.9

For the December 2009 Geospatial Freebie of the Month, we turn our attention to one of the most popular software packages in the industry, ESRI’s ArcGIS. One of the best features of ArcGIS is the ability to add free scripts and tools other users have created and posted to their website (the complete database is found here - http://arcscripts.esri.com/).

Free Service - Data Alert

Do you have an area of interest around the world for which you just can't seem to find imagery?

Or do you have a project on the near horizon which will require imagery?

If you answered yes to either of these questions, then eMap International is pleased to offer you the perfect free service*, Data Alert. Once you sign up for Data Alert, we will periodically search for the data you need and alert you if and when it has been collected. Signing up is quick and easy so you can sit back and let eMap do the work for you!

How do you sign up for Data Alert?

To sign up for Data Alert, all you have to do is respond to this newsletter with information on your:

1. Geographic location of interest (less than 1,000 sq km; defined by coordinates, KMZ/KML or ESRI shapefile)

2. Acceptable resolution and spectral bands

3. Special timing/seasonal considerations for the data

We will get you set up from there!

*There is no obligation to buy data by eMap. Standard archive pricing and minimum order prices apply.

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