ArcData Partners Provide Esri Users with Fast, Easy Way to Obtain DataOne of the greatest resources for GIS users is Esri's ArcData Program--a comprehensive, one-stop shopping source for commercial data sets ready to use with Esri GIS software from more than 70 data publishers. Obtaining data from Esri's ArcData publishers is easy. A complete listing and contact information for all data is available at www.esri.com/arcdata. Users can also browse, download, and license selected data directly over the Web by using ArcData Online at data.esri.com. ArcData publishers offer a variety of data to fit your needs. Compusearch provides some of the largest and most accurate integrated databases containing Canadian data. Data sets consist of census, demographic, location, marketing, cartographic, and many other types of data including CompuStreets. CompuStreets is topologically sound, contains fully addressed digital street files for Canada, and is designed to support micromarketing and sociodemographic segmentation needs. For more information, visit www.esri.com/arcdata or www.polk.ca. Aerotopia AlphaMap software from The MapFactory is prebundled, fully integrated basemap software that combines high-resolution imagery with topographic data, street vectors, and 10-meter panchromatic satellite imagery. AlphaMap Platinum is used for many applications-site selection, infrastructure planning, parcel evaluations, demographic analysis, or any other geographically based discipline. The MapFactory's product line includes a comprehensive selection of aerial and satellite imagery and a range of complementary digital information.
Maptech was established in 1989 to develop National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) based marine navigation software and raster charts. Today, Maptech also provides USGS topographic maps at 1:24,000, 1:25,000, and 1:100,000 scale in raster format with viewing and map extraction software. For more information, visit www.esri.com/arcdata or www.maptech.com. VISTA is a solutions provider for environmental and insurance professions. VISTA compiles, enhances, and maintains the largest database of location-specific real estate, environmental, and insurance underwriting information in the world. VISTA's Environmental Geographics product consists of geocoded location and attribute data for more than 3.5 million regulated and unregulated hazardous waste generators, leaking tank sites, toxic spills, and other sites affecting the environment. For more information, visit www.esri.com/arcdata or www.vistainfo.com. WorldSat is recognized for their satellite images of earth, three-dimensional perspectives, detailed city views, and high-resolution scenes of countries and continents. WorldSat provides natural-color, cloud-free satellite and airborne image mosaics. WorldSat's primary product is its georeferenced 1-km, 2-km, and 4-km cloud-free, full earth data sets collected from the NOAA weather satellites, which orbit the earth at an altitude of more than 520 miles in space. For more information, visit www.esri.com/arcdata or www.worldsat.ca. |