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For Immediate Release -- January 7, 2008
Andrew Koutsoukos
Phone: 415-381-1750
Email: info@boundarysolutions.com
Boundary Solutions, Inc.

Boundary Solutions, Inc.
2007 YEAR IN REVIEW

Mill Valley, CA: This year has been BSI’s best EVER. Great strides were made in expanding the National ParcelMap Data Portal (NPDP) coverage quality and and loading it onto multiple commodity geoservers, all funded by a major increase in new subscribers.

ACCOUNTS. Subscriber profiles include:

• Pictometry International’s utilization of BSI’s parcel layers helped a major insurance company settle catastrophe claims quickly.
• · Science Application International Corporation (SAIC) applied NPDP counties to a major pipeline project.
• US HUD applied Gulf States NPDP content to a neighborhood disaster recovery database pilot. Going forward, this application is identifying best practice techniques and standards for performing situs joins between digital parcel map layers and disaster recovery related databases.
• Four urban development information service companies applied the TOTALNPDP as parcel layer their offerings.
• Industry’s largest non-residential insurance information service company subscribed to the TOTALNPDP to improve their actuary operations.
• A game company subscribed to TOTALNPDP to add real world quality to their real time video games.
• Continuing Updating of existing subscribers to keep their NPDP Subscriptions current

SERVER DEVELOPMENT. In addition to the many NPDP download subscribers, the entire NPDP has been loaded on two national GeoServers, positioning BSI for the rapidly emerging transaction based online parcel GIS deployment. NPDP is now available by the transaction on these online commodity geoservers so far, including:

DATA COVERAGE. Ended year with the following major gains in data coverage:

DATA QUALITY. Substantial investment has been made by BSI to develop a suite of software that streamlined production by 300% and, more importantly, replaced complex error prone array of key strokes that take weeks to master with a simple wizard mastered in minutes, eliminating nearly 100% of opportunity for error.

POLICY LEADERSHIP. BSI provided leadership to the entire industry:

• OPEN RECORDS LITIGATION. Supported the Public Records Act compliance lawsuit against Santa Clara County. The judge ruled against Santa Clara County greatly advancing the day that PRA compliance is universal nationwide.
• IAAO Conference: Facilitated a Digital Parcel Map Database Standards Panel at IAOO 2007 Conference.
• URISA Conference: Promoted broad use of digital parcel map data in presentation with HUD Neighborhood Disaster Recovery Pilot Project.

PATENT DEFENSE. BSI will be initiating a patent strategy in 2008 to optimize the value of its patent portfolio and aid in establishing BSI as the wholesale provider of digital parcel map databases to the all geospatial users locating an address within the USA by displaying its boundary.

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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 January 2008, a total of 60 million parcels from 498 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 91 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 25 modifications and metric recordings to assure universal internal consistency so that an application that works in Seattle also works in St. Pete. NPDP content is available as downloads from the NPDP FTP Site or on a transaction basis using two industry geoserver sites. Boundary Solutions Inc. was awarded U.S. Patent 7,092,957, entitled “Computerized National Online Parcel-level Map Data Portal.” Claims include multi-jurisdictional search to locate an address by displaying its corresponding digital parcel map boundary. The patent relates back to the original provisional patent application filing date of January 18, 2002. 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.