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For Immediate Release -- July 17, 2009
Andrew Koutsoukos
Phone: 415-381-1750
Email: andrew@boundarysolutions.com
Boundary Solutions, Inc.

BSI Supports National Geospatial Advisory Committee

Mill Valley, CA: NGAC was formed in 2008 to act as an outreach for the Federal Geographic Data CommitteeÕs implementation of the National Spatial Data Initiative (NSDI). Since its formation, Boundary Solutions Inc. (BSI) has regularly attended NGAC’s meetings as part of BSI’s corporate mission to be the leading National Parcel Layer Content Service Provider. BSI has presented to NGAC and received comments on, the findings of BSI’s research published in IAAO magazine – “Broad Use of Digital Parcel Maps and Property Tax Base Growth”

Charged with establishing a National Geospatial Strategy, many see the NGAC emerging as the “voice” of our geospatial industry. Our role at BSI is to ensure that the resulting strategy offers the greatest benefit to as many as possible. This will require broad participation of the private sector. To this end, BSI is offering a recap of all NGAC activity so far. To get started, read this (PDF) for a quick understanding of NGAC’s progress in the form of excerpts from all NGAC proceedings to date that BSI has found to be of direct interest to the private sector.

BSI is the custodian of the National Parcel Map Data Portal (NPDP™). As of July 2009, a total of 76 million parcel boundary polygons from 680 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 or ESRI ArcWebServices geoserver platforms. The USPTO awarded Boundary Solutions Inc. Patents 7,092,957 & 7,499,946, and 7,516,156 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 and the processing of change layer updates for the NPDP. The original provisional patent application was filed 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..