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BSI PARTICIPATES ON BLUE RIBBON
PUBLIC RECORDS PANEL at CALGIS 2005

Press Release
March 31, 2005
Contact: Chris Harlow
Phone: 205-982-9203
Email: charlow@boundarysolutions.com
Boundary Solutions, Inc.

Bakersfield, CA: BSI participated in a major public records panel at CALGIS 2005 to explore this premise. Most are quick to agree that broad Use of digital parcel map database stimulates the local economy. The superior accuracy and detail of readily available digital parcel maps improves insurance, private utility, banking and real estate information operations such that:

  • Savings in insurance premiums and utility bills diverted to sales taxable expenditures causes sales tax revenues to increase.
  • More dependable real estate transactions, development decisions and added out-of-town investment increases real estate values, hence property tax revenues.

These tax increases are not trivial, growing to millions of dollars per year for even the smallest counties. The only losers are inefficiencies squeezed out of business practice due to the ability of digital parcel map databases to improved the quality of information processing operations.

How Broad Use of Digital Parcel Maps Increase Sales and Property Tax Revenues

To begin verifying the above premise, this panel was assembled to compare different opinions regarding the benefit of broad data sharing policies from a private, local and state government sector perspective.

  • Tony Ansolabehere, Kern County Assessor's Office –Described ways broad use stimulates local economy included nonprofit economic development projects.
  • John Ellison, California Resources Agency – Positive implications of broad use on state supported programs in particular and the economy in general. He elaborated that numerous State GIS programs go wanting due to CALPRA violations.
  • Dennis H. Klein, Boundary Solutions, Inc. – Private sector perspective based on several land base fulfillment projects including SBC and PGE.
  • Bruce Joffe, GIS Consultants – Lead the 50 attendees in a discussion of the upcoming opinion of the California Attorney General in response to a petition by Assemblyman Joe Nation for an interpretation of the California Public Records Act. The comment period is extended to May 1, 2005 providing more time for everyone to respond.

Download the entire CALGIS PowerPoint presentation here

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Boundary Solutions Inc. assembled the most extensive database of parcel map data available from jurisdictions throughout the United States. Terms and conditions for its acquisition, use and updates are in place for 85% of the nation’s major metros; 65 million parcels. All content is normalized, regardless of source format, to a single national spatial configuration so that an application that works in Seattle also works in St. Pete. In September 2003, the US Patent Office published BSI’s U.S. Patent Application #20030140064 for a National Online ParcelMap Data Portal (NPDP). This patent includes the establishment of an online national parcel map data server that enables its users to operate parcel GIS data models as well as an application programming interface that helps simplify using the data and creating applications.

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