http://www.whitestar.com/blog The WhiteStar Blog - Answering Geology & Digital Data Questions Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:00:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The past couple of days have been quite exciting here in Barcelona, Spain! Spent a few hours in Mapserver and Geoserver workshops. These were enlightening and put on by very knowledgable people. One of the topics today that was interesting was 'Shades of Grey: Opportunities for Collaboration' ... http://www.whitestar.com/blog/?p=176 With version 1.70.00 of WhiteStar Wells, users can expect 4,040 new wells in the State of Texas. For other states, our subscribers will see an increase of 10,747 wells in the database. http://www.whitestar.com/blog/?p=174 The Q3 2010 update of WhiteStar Culture includes pipeline updates for the State of Texas as well as the Gulf of Mexico.  As always, the pipelines have been edgematched from the Gulf to the State of Texas.  Look for more exciting updates to WhiteStar Culture in Q4! http://www.whitestar.com/blog/?p=170 With the Q3 2010 release of WhiteStar Grid, out this week, subscribers now have access to the Pennsylvania Municipality data. This layer is very useful for people working in the Marcellus Shale Play. The data has been seamless integrated with the other layers within WhiteStar Grid. http://www.whitestar.com/blog/?p=166 We spend quite a bit of time enhancing state reported well data here at WhiteStar.  In the past several months, we've added tens of thousands of well elevations to oil and gas wells in about ten different states.  In addition, we have added Meridian, Township, Range, and Section to wells ... http://www.whitestar.com/blog/?p=164 We’ve noticed there are three overlooked and very valuable data layers in our WhiteStar Culture product of which you may not be aware. We have incorporated all of the Texas Railroad Commission Pipeline data for Texas and we update this four times annually. This data layer includes attributes such as ... http://www.whitestar.com/blog/?p=160 2009 1 meter imagery has been added to our Streaming Imagery services for a number of states/areas. New areas are as follows: Southern Alabama, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Oregon, Utah and Washington. http://www.whitestar.com/blog/?p=158 Here at WhiteStar we are committed to ongoing updates of our data to put out the best possible digital cartographic products.   The Texas Land Survey updates for Q1 2010 have been completed.  Following is a summary of layer updates and additions: Blocks - 10 Surveys - 471 Abstract - 535 Overlapping Blocks - ... http://www.whitestar.com/blog/?p=155 We've recently added to our library the 2009 1m Color Imagery for the State of California. This data makes a great addition to any California project you may be working on. Let us know if you have a requirement for this type of data. Thanks! http://www.whitestar.com/blog/?p=154 The Downside of “Free” Maps and charts are the lifeblood of the oil and gas industry and most petroleum executives crave the ability to visualize exploration maps in a dashboard format. The advent of free applications such as Google Earth has made complex imagery available to everyone, and while this online ... http://www.whitestar.com/blog/?p=148