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Digital Map Products Helps Habitat for Humanity Compete More Efficiently in the Development Market
| Source: Digital Map Products
SANTA ANA, CA--(Marketwire - June 25, 2008) - Digital Map Products (DMP)
(http://www.digitalmapproducts.com) today announced it has donated its
GIS-powered knowledge capture and visualization tool LandVision™ to
Orlando, Florida's Habitat for Humanity chapter.
With the downturn of the real estate market, Digital Map Products president
and founder Jim Skurzynski says many small and mid-sized organizations
doing in-fill, low-income, senior housing and retail development are
looking for ways to more efficiently collect total knowledge about their
organization, analyze the changing market and acquire or dispose of land
assets.
"Habitat for Humanity, like many organizations, has been hit by the
downturn in the housing market," Skurzynski said. "Since they do such
valuable work, we saw an opportunity to help them make more efficient and
effective decisions and possibly even take advantage of the troubled market
by giving them a powerful tool usually only available to for-profit
builders and developers."
Digital Map Products' LandVision™ leverages advanced spatial analysis
and data visualization technologies to help developers locate, research,
qualify, and manage real estate opportunities. It integrates a host of
property, environmental, and marketing information, with aerial imagery and
advanced analytical and data management functionality. This allows users
to not only see a picture of a property of interest, but also to retrieve,
store and manage key information about the property and its surroundings.
One of the ways LandVision™ allows users to work more efficiently is by
enabling knowledge capture. LandVision's™ knowledge capture capabilities
allow the entire real estate team to easily spatial enable their
proprietary market and property knowledge by inputting it into the system
and allowing them to search and retrieve it for later use. Organizations
can create a common visual database that ties their data together with
general data, allowing them to extract greater value from this information
and gain a competitive advantage.
Habitat of Orlando Deputy Director Greg Allen said his organization
recently made the decision to develop multi-family low-income housing, in
order to better serve people who otherwise could not afford homes. But in
order to find suitable sites for development, Habitat needs to compete with
other developers and builders who are looking for three-to-ten acre sites
in Orange County.
"LandVision will help us find those opportunities," Allen said. "It will
also allow us to show -- with maps rather than words -- the progress we
have made to our board, potential funders and the community. We are excited
about having this efficient knowledge capture and visualization tool to
make our efforts more effective."
Habitat's land acquisition specialist Wally Miller said LandVision™ will
allow him to pull together information he previously had to gather from
several different county offices. It will also allow him to use the
Internet to locate potential development sites that might be hard to spot
otherwise.
About Habitat for Humanity Orlando
Habitat Orlando brings together families in need and volunteers of all
faiths, in partnership with community resources, to enhance lives by
building homes, strengthening neighborhoods and improving the community.
Habitat Orlando is located at 1925 Traylor Blvd, Orlando 32804. For more
information, visit www.habitat-orlando.org.
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's SaaS products serve nearly 500 customers, representing about
200,000 registered users. Its ParcelStream™ web application is powering
national real estate websites with millions of hits per month. Products
include online 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.