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For Immediate Release -- March 16, 2009
Andrew Koutsoukos
Phone: 415-381-1750
Email: andrew@boundarysolutions.com
Boundary Solutions, Inc.

BSI and ISC Join Forces to Launch ParcelAtlas.com,
Online National Parcel Layer Information Service


Mill Valley, CA: Boundary Solutions, Inc. (BSI) joined forces with ISC of Tallahassee FL to offer ParcelAtlas.com™, a national parcel layer information service on ISC’s MapDotNet™ geoserver platform. Parcelatlas.com is designed to vastly reduce all property related information transactions costs. Its highly convenient user interface displays the desired address in a list with surprisingly few keystrokes. Upon highlighting the desired address, the corresponding parcel boundary and linked attributes instantly display over all Virtual Earth™ geo layers. BSI’s entire National ParcelMap Data Portal (NPDP™) is on board. Parcel boundary over Pictometry™ images is available on request as well as advanced access to additional attributes, plat map scans and sales reports. Per transaction price point is aimed at enabling all to afford adding an online USPTO compliant national parcel layer to their land information operations.

“For eleven years BSI has been assembling the NPDP, waiting for the right geoserver technology to come along strong enough to competently deploy it. ParcelAtlas.com is worth the wait”, said Dennis Klein, president of BSI. He contiued, "Now, insurance, banking, infrastructure, emergency response and real estate information service organizations can all benefit from the superior speed, efficiency and accuracy of ParcelAtlas. Due to its very low price point, everyone can improve their geopspatial operations by knowing not just the location of an address but its extents. As a result, many appraisal, hazard and environmental due diligence tasks can be fully automated for the first time. It is now widely understood that the GIS parcel boundary base map is industry's basic positional standard.”

“ISC identified the need for accurate and standardized parcel data sets a number of years ago. It is absolutely critical to be able to visualize and identify property parcel boundaries and tax roll information for many businesses and government organizations.” said Mark Alexander, President of ISC.

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BSI is the custodian of the National Parcel Map Data Portal (NPDP™). As of October 2008, a total of 74 million parcel boundary polygons from 620 jurisdictions are normalized and ready for download. Regardless of source format, all content is subjected to over 30 software driven modifications and metric recordings to assure universal internal consistency highly convenient geoserver loading. NPDP content is available as downloads from the NPDP FTP Site or on a transaction basis using ISC ParcelAtlas, r7 GeoRoom, Placebase Pushpin or ESRI ArcWebServices geoserver platforms. The USPTO awardedÊBoundary Solutions Inc. Patents 7,092,957 & 7,499,946 entitled “Computerized National Online Parcel-level Map Data Portal.” Claims include multi-state search to locate an address by displaying its corresponding digital parcel map boundary. The original provisional patent application filing date is 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.