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BSI FACILITATES URISA06
DIGITAL PARCEL MAP STANDARDS PANEL


Press Release
September 22, 2006
Chris Harlow
Phone: 205-982-9203
Email: charlow@boundarysolutions.com
Boundary Solutions, Inc.

Mill Valley, CA: Boundary Solutions, Inc. is pleased to announce that its founder and president will facilitate the upcoming digital parcel map standards panel at URISA '06 Here's a chance to learn how digital parcel map databases are being standardized and about the progress being made toward BSI's seamless National Parcelmap Data Portal.

Where: URISA's 2006 Annual Conference • Vancouver, BC 9/28/2006 • ROOM 232 3-4pm

Panel Name: DIGITAL PARCEL MAP DATABASE STANDARDS PANEL

Participants/Enterprise/Perspective:

George Horning / King County, WA GIS / Local

Carol Hall / Metro Portland Planning / Regional

Cy Smith / Oregon Geospatial Enterprise Office / State

Dennis Klein / Boundary Solutions, Inc. / Private/Public

Local GIS managers, county assessors, state agencies and commercial companies will find out everything you need to know about parcels, including:

  • Significant New parcel collection, improvement and distribution projects
  • Ways to increase budgets related to cadastral mapping - what works, what doesn't
  • Standards you need to know or comply with to ensure data integrity and reuse
  • Best practices for collecting and distributing data - case studies
  • Current National Parcel Aggregation Projects - who has what & why is it important?

BSI will be leading a Panel of Experts, following the tremendous response from the Digital Parcel Map Panel at CALGIS last March

Proceedings: www.boundarysolutions.com/URISA06STARDARDSPANEL.ppt

More info: www.boundarysolutions.com/ccount/click.php?id=7



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Boundary Solutions Inc. assembled the most extensive database of parcel map data available from jurisdictions throughout the United States. As of July 2006, a total of 43 million parcels from 340 jurisdictions are normalized and ready for download. Terms and conditions for digital parcel map database acquisition and updates are in place for 450 more jurisdictions, a total of 86 million parcels representing coverage for up to 95% of the nation's land transaction activity. Regardless of source format, all content is subjected to over 20 modification steps to assure universal internal consistency so that an application that works in Seattle also works in St. Pete. Boundary Solutions, BSI, Boundary Solutions logo, National ParcelMap Data Portal, NPDP, and Rooftop Accuracy are trademarks of BSI. All other trademarks and company names mentioned are the property of their respective owners