With the next release of GeoGraphix users will be able to consume web map services within GeoAtlas.  We’ve been working closely with the folks at GeoGraphix for the past few weeks and now have a beta version in-house.  Public and proprietary imagery, topo maps, landgrid or any other type of map service wrapped up in an ESRI .lyr file can be consumed and quickly rendered in a GeoAtlas map.  Have a look at this.  This image is an overview map of the wells, imagery and PLSS data for the State of Wyoming.  Once the wells were imported into WellBase, the township and imagery layers were quickly added.  Nationwide imagery, Land grid, Well locations, Topo Maps are avaialble via this model from WhiteStar.   If you’d like to see more, please contact either Steve Pickett or Adam Feldman at 800-736-6277.

We’re excited about converting the PDF files on the Energy Information Administration’s web site to ESRI Geodatabase format. States such as Texas (And the MMS in the offshore) already make this data available in GIS format, and there’s no reason that this should not be done for the rest of the country. While we’re converting the data, we’re georeferencing it to 1 meter imagery - another much desired feature that other vendors seem to overlook.