deCarta Partners With GlobeXplorer for Aerial & Satellite Imagery Capability

Through our new partnership, deCarta and GlobeXplorer customers will be able to easily create location-based applications that overlay spatial and complementary customer-generated data onto GlobeXplorer imagery. Applications can be developed through deCarta's no-cost Developer Zone, and commercially deployed through either deCarta's Hosted Web Services, a state-of-the-art, professionally managed hosting environment or by licensing and deploying deCarta's market-proven Drill Down Server(TM) geospatial software platform. deCarta and GlobeXplorer have collaborated on a seamless interface between deCarta's Web services API and GlobeXplorer's Image Server within the deCarta AJAX framework. This enables easy generation of "hybrid" maps such as the overlay of road network or parcel data on top of aerial and satellite imagery.

See the full press release here, and be sure to visit deCarta's Developer Zone for a free trial!

Podcast: GlobeXplorer and the Future of Imagery

Directions Magazine editor-in-chief, Joe Francica, spoke with Rob Shanks, president of GlobeXplorer, on the business model of Web services, the availability of specific products and the interest level that exists for purchasing Web services. Shanks also provides some interpretation of the results from Directions Magazine’s annual GIS Survey which asked respondents to express their interest in Web services as well as a perspective on some of the technological issues of satellite imagery such as higher spatial resolution and the launching of “microsatellites.” The 18 minute interview was recorded on September 13, 2006.

GlobeXplorer Imagery now at Map24

We've just launched with our partners at MapSolute, the creators of Map24.com (US) and associated international map, business, and travel sites. Check out the links below. Just go to any address and click on "Hybrid" or "Satellite" in the map viewer. Happy travels!

Map24 USA Maps
Map24 UK Maps
Map24 Germany Maps

GlobeXplorer Ignites Reply.com

Reply.com just re-launched with an amazing new service for the real estate industry. GlobeXplorer is proud to provide high-speed image and map services to Reply.com, and delivering on the promise of the GeoWeb. Check it out here.

GlobeXplorer and the State of the Satellite Imagery Business

About four minutes into this MP3 audio file from Directions Magazine, you can hear GlobeXlorer's importance in the satellite imagery distribution business. As a geographic content and publishing company, it's nice to hear that we're important!

GlobeXplorer's High-Speed Mapping Services

Here's a nice article by Adena Shutzberg of Directions Magazine, which mentions GlobeXplorer's web services (the full GlobeXplorer press release is here). Our model is to be software platform agnostic, so that our users can choose any mapping platform and pricing model which is appropriate to them.

For instance, we have web service plug-ins for Microsoft Virtual Earth, MapQuest, deCarta (Telcontar), Google Maps, Google Earth, Yahoo Maps, ESRI, MapInfo, Auodesk, and any WMS-based Internet and desktop mapping platforms.

Choose any mapping platform you'd like, and enjoy high-speed imagery, parcel maps, street maps, flood maps, and more fed directly into that platform from GlobeXplorer's high-speed servers. Our API's and plug-ins are fast and flexible, and our imagery and maps are the finest available. Content is king, so give your users the best data, while implementing any platform/application you like best!

GlobeXplorer's AirPhotoUSA Imagery is First Comprehensive 1-Foot Aerial Imagery of USA

GlobeXplorer's AirPhotoUSA today announced the first comprehensive collection of 1-foot resolution aerial photography for the nation. The new offerings will be the highest resolution off-the-shelf seamless imagery commercially available on a nationwide basis. Guided by a '3C' mantra of industry-leading clarity, coverage, and compatibility, GlobeXplorer and AirPhotoUSA will make this data available through a combined suite of online and offline products.

GlobeXplorer and DigitalGlobe Offer Global Imagery

At GlobeXplorer, we're really excited about the addition of DigitialGlobe's CitySphere collection of the top 200 world cities to our archive.

PS - We've also loaded over 30 new states of NAIP imagery, read more!

GlobeXplorer and Autodesk Team To Provide Imagery

Autodesk’s strategic partnership with GlobeXplorer provides customers with online access to the largest archive of international aerial and satellite imagery, as well as detailed property information in the US. Read more.

GlobeXplorer and MapInfo Provide Site Selection

GlobeXplorer, the leading provider of satellite images and aerial photography via the Internet, and MapInfo are now offering access to Nationwide Aerial Premium Imagery through AnySite® Online for only. All AnySite Online accounts that currently contain Aerials have been upgraded to include nationwide coverage offered by GlobeXplorer. Read more.

GlobeXplorer and ESRI Serve EPA Offices Nationwide

GlobeXplorer and ESRI are excited to announce that EPA's management in Washington, D.C., has responded to employees' increasing demand for current high-resolution imagery by expanding GlobeXplorer data access to the entire agency. See all the details in this article.

GlobeXplorer's High Speed Image Service

GeoSpatial Solutions has just posted a great article about GlobeXplorer's ImageBuilder web services.

Take a high-speed test drive below!
Ask.com Maps
Zillow Website
National Geographic MapMachine
ESRI ArcWeb Explorer
Where's Yours Maps

GlobeXplorer Lights Up ESRI's ArcWeb Program

The latest big news on our image web services is that GlobeXplorer is powering ESRI's ArcWeb Services program for developers, consumers, and businesses. Our first major customer, General Mills, signed up to create a consumer mapping application at Where's Yours.

In a recent article by Directions Magazine, Clare Kanter, the associate marketing manager for Nature Valley Granola Bars (part of General Mills) put the company's "Where's Your's" Web campaign in perspective. Nature Valley was looking for a way to spruce up its Web presence and partnered with ESRI to provide the mapping component. She said it was because ESRI could provide the high resolution imagery, which is in fact delivered by GlobeXplorer, that helped seal the deal.

You can see a basic ArcWeb Services viewer implementation with GlobeXplorer imagery in it here. Have fun!

Ask.com Maps Powered by GlobeXplorer

Want a better online map site? Check out Ask.com's latest edition of Maps. You can play and record driving directions, create full-screen views, and view beautiful full-resolution aerial and satellite imagery from GlobeXplorer and our partners, along with map overlays. There are already two blogs here and here for all your comments and feedback. Have fun!

ImageAtlas Viewer Upgraded

We're at it again, and we just made a good thing better. Our latest ImageAtlas web viewer let's you search and find aerial and satellite imagery, add street map overlays, and even hover MapQuest maps on top of the images. Not to be outdone, you can also search any area for images of different dates with the click of a mouse. You can even purchase high quality file downloads and hardcopy prints. Very cool! Check it out at http://www.globexplorer.com/ImageAtlas/view.do .

GlobeXplorer Takes Off In 2006!

It's been an exciting year so far at GlobeXplorer, and we've already created some considerable new partnerships. We reached an agreement with the US EPA to provide them with agency-wide online imagery and topos through our ImageConnect GIS plug-ins and our ImageBuilder toolkits. And of course, GlobeXplorer is excited to be the imagery and map provider for Zillow.com, a new real estate information site that is taking the home buying world by storm. We're also the imagery provider for HomePages.com, owned and operated by HouseValues. More announcements coming soon!

Links:

EPA story
http://www.globexplorer.com/company/news-releases/USEPAobtainsGXservices_pr01-06.shtml

Zillow relationship
http://www.globexplorer.com/company/zillow.shtml
AND
www.zillow.com

HomePages website
http://www.homepages.com/

Got Mapping Software? We've got you covered.

For the professional mapper in all of you, check out the latest CAD/GIS software plug-ins from GlobeXplorer. With these simple but powerful tools, you can instantly access hundreds of terabytes of earth imagery and maps, right from your familiar software of choice!

Links:
MapInfo ImageConnect Website
Autodesk ImageConnect Website
ESRI-BIS ImageConnect Website
GlobeXplorer AirPhotoUSA PhotoMapper Website
GlobeXplorer ImageConnect for ESRI, MapInfo & Autodesk

GlobeXplorer Releases Next Generation Real Estate Tool

We see alot of talk about Google in web spaces and the POSSIBILITY of mixing real estate information into it. GlobeXplorer is already doing this, with powerful data content (high resolution imagery, parcel boundary lines, assessor data, sales comps, flood zones, etc.). Please take a look at GlobeXplorer's new Property Analyst viewer. It combines the power of an aerial viewer with over 90 fields of detailed assessor, value, and property information for each property in a county. Users can click on a property and instantly see detailed reports about it. GlobeXplorer is a unique company providing cutting-edge imagery and mapping services to real estate!

Please go to http://www.globexplorer.com/products/imageatlas-property-analyst.shtml for more information and to try a free demo of San Francisco Property Analyst.

GlobeXplorer Acquires AirphotoUSA

Some of the most exciting news of the year for GlobeXplorer customers and partners is our recent acquisition of AirPhotoUSA. We're forging ahead with new products and technology, to bring you better solutions, faster than ever before. Enjoy.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050912/dam044.html?.v=21

http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=1955

Hurricane Katrina Aid

You can see our first sets of Hurricane Katrina imagery and maps at:

http://www.globexplorer.com/disasterimages/index.shtml

http://arcweb.esri.com/sc/hurricane_viewer/index.html

http://www.esri.com/news/pressroom/hurricanemaps.html

This FREE imagery is made available to anyone assisting in recovery efforts.

Location Intelligence: GlobeXplorer

Here's a nice post on GlobeXplorer's capabilities, from the "O'Reilly Radar".

GlobeXplorer, National Geographic and ESRI to Create New Mapping Portal

Read the latest news about this exciting, multi-companmy initiative!

Here's a recent bit of PR from the US Department of the Interior.

Also, see the National Geographic Map Machine as it exists today.

GlobeXplorer Offers Open Interfaces

Folks might be interested in this complete review of GlobeXplorer's open technologies by Lance McKee, written for the Open Geospatial Consortium Newsletter, August, 2005. Check it out here.

Web 2.0 - GlobeXplorer's Web Map Services

Greetings to The Wall Street Journal's Tim Hanrahan and Jason Fry -

With regard to your recent article about Google Earth,

GlobeXplorer has six years of experience in online business-to-business e-commerce, selling API's, web services, and web applications to business customers in markets such as real estate, insurance, engineering, and telecom/utilities. GlobeXplorer operates as a business unit of the Stewart Real Estate Information group (NYSE:STC) and thus provides access to an immense library of real estate and land information. Our company has provided its subscription-based services to leading Internet portals such as those of ESRI, MapInfo, Mapquest.com, Maps.com, National Geographic, ADT, real-estate companies such as CoStar, Major MLS's, Grubb&Ellis, Stewart, Fidelity and First American, and U.S. Government agencies including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Census Bureau and the Lawrence Livermore National Lab. For all of these customers, an important part of the GlobeXplorer e-commerce offering is a robust metering system for tracking content. The system automates the billing process and pays royalties based on accurate and verifiable usage of each supplier’s content.

GlobeXplorer also operates its own consumer portal called ImageAtlas. We deliver millions of maps/images, and downloads/prints, every day at this site.

With over 600Tb of image and map data, and adding as much as 1Tb more each month, we deliver mostly commercial imagery data and ancillary map data layers that can be overlaid onto images (e.g. flood zones and parcels.) Most of our images are color 6-inch and sub-meter resolution from around the world, including some data at 3-inch resolution. Users can even click on a building and get every detail on it from our real estate databases.

We also provide full streaming 3D viewers which run in both web browsers and desktop clients. We provide high value data and business services, and we just thought you'd like to know!

PS - When we launched our first commercial product on September 12, 2000, the Wall Street Journal ran an exclusive story on GlobeXplorer. We were the featured, front page story in "Marketplace".

Best Regards,

Rob Shanks
President & CEO
GlobeXplorer, LLC

GlobeXplorer Entering Search Wars?

At GlobeXplorer, we get a lot of questions regarding our role in all the recent activity surrounding consumer portals, search engines, and "local" mapping applications. Here's a good article written by Joe Francica of Directions Magazine.