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December 2000
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Earth Resource Mapping and Vicinity's MapBlast! to Combine Technologies
Vicinity, Palo, Alto, Calif., and Earth Resource Mapping, San Diego, announced that Vicinity's MapBlast!
will be combined with Earth Resource Mapping's Image Web Server ( www.EarthEtc.com ) software. Earth Resource Mapping (ERM) selected MapBlast! ( www.mapblast.com ), the Web site from Vicinity Corporation, to provide the "street map" portion of its solution, which seamlessly links databases of tax details, floor plan imagery, and airphoto/topographic maps served by Image Web Server. The combined MapBlast!/Image Web Server solution is targeted to state, county and city-level governmental departments to help decrease the high cost of providing tax and property details to the public. "Our services are available to numerous vertical markets from retail to financial and we are thrilled to be introducing our services to the governmental ranks through our new channel partner ERM," said Emerick Woods, president and CEO of Vicinity, regarding MapBlast!'s potential to reach 6,000 county- and city-level departments and 30,000 real estate agencies through ERM's solution. ERM's Image Web Server provides access to large-sized images; works with slow or fast Internet pipelines; applies to a wide range of industries; serves imagery to any application; connects imagery with GIS, DBMS and map servers; and is an add-on to existing Web servers. MapBlast! provides users with interactive maps and driving directions. "MapBlast! is a natural fit as it offers the essential part of the solution," said Stuart Nixon, CEO of ERM. "Its maps offer a natural interface into spatial data, and a form of verification of the correct location, and a way to navigate between spatial data."
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