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Visual Map Tools Give Pacific Northwest Homebuilders a Competitive Edge: Partnership Between Digital Map Products and New Home Trends
| Source: Digital Map Products
SANTA ANA, CA--(Marketwire - August 28, 2007) - Digital Map Products (DMP)
(http://www.digitalmapproducts.com) today announced a partnership with
Seattle-based New Home Trends (NHT) that allows builders and developers to
view critical industry data in a web-based visual interface. The two
companies are now offering NHT's forecasting data with DMP's LandVision
software to NHT customers in the Pacific Northwest.
"The cutting edge in a very competitive real estate market right now is the
ability to combine data from multiple sources into a visual interface.
Trends, opportunities and development patterns literally pop off the page
when they're
plugged into a GIS map," James Skurzynski, President of Digital Map
Products, said.
"LandVison brings a unique product to this market and fills a long time
need for both small and large companies," President of New Home Trends Todd
Britsch said. "Our partnership with Digital Map Products allows us to offer
a complete GIS package that all builders and developers can afford."
Britsch said smaller builders and developers often cannot afford Geographic
Information Systems built from proprietary data. But LandVision is an open
system, meaning New Home Trends' data can be combined with Digital Map
Products and offered at a reasonable rate.
Skurzynski said the partnership with NHT shows the power of combining data
from multiple sources and allowing users to access that data via a visual
interface, rather than having to study it in an isolated database. He said
DMP has helped local governments and real estate companies offer their data
in a map-based format, and it's constantly looking for new ways to partner
with innovative businesses like NHT.
"This partnership represents the next step in our constant search for new
data and novel ways to display and use that data, which helps businesses
make more efficient decisions."
Digital Map Products hopes to replicate this partnership in other regions
of the United States.
About New Home Trends
New Home Trends, Inc. offers clients its decades of consulting and data
gathering on the new home marketplace in the Pacific Northwest. The web
site NewHomeTrends.com offers clients enhanced decision making through
access to all current and future communities in Washington, Oregon and
Idaho. The company offers a unique, user friendly database which, combined
with industry leading tools, takes the guess work out of what's happening
and what the trends are in the marketplace.
About Digital Map Products
Digital Map Products, Inc. was the first provider of subscription web
applications that embed Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology to
enhance workflow productivity. Based in Santa Ana, California, the company
supports more than 350 customers, representing about 150,000 registered
users. Products include on-line applications such as LandVision for the
research, acquisition and management of land assets, CityGIS and
CommunityView for government and ParcelStream for web developers. To
learn more, visit http://www.digitalmapproducts.com.
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