WhiteStar Introduces Unlimited Basemap Access (UBA) Product

LAKEWOOD, Colorado, 21 May 2007 ­ WhiteStar Corp. today introduced Unlimited Basemap Access (UBA), a seamless nationwide digital mosaic of base map information layers from U.S. Census Bureau TIGER Files. Designed for any geospatial mapping project that requires an accurate digital base map, UBA contains 42 layers of cultural features that can be "cookie cut" according to a user-selected area of interest and downloaded into most popular digital mapping package.

"UBA saves a tremendous amount of time in a 100,000-scale base mapping project," said Robert White, President of WhiteStar. "For many GIS users, UBA will eliminate the need for large processing capabilities."

With traditional TIGER files, White explained, an end user who wanted to create a base map for a project spread across eight counties would have to process files for all of those counties to extract the desired data. WhiteStar developed UBA, however, with a powerful interface that lets the user select layers with a few mouse clicks and then delineate the area of interest by choosing a specific county, outlining the project area onscreen or entering its latitude/longitude corner points.

UBA users can then export the data into a variety of popular mapping formats, including ESRI, MapInfo, GeoGraphix, Petra, AutoCAD and Golden software. In addition, the data can be projected in either NAD27 or NAD83 coordinate systems, including all related state planes and UTM zones.

"UBA can even process multiple counties in parallel to a single output file," said White. "A user can process base map files to show all city boundaries nationwide, for example, in about 10 minutes - which would otherwise require processing tens of thousands of individual TIGER files.

WhiteStar includes periodic updates to the UBA product eliminating costly customer data management problems. WhiteStar creates the data updates by tracking new TIGER releases from the Census Bureau. This gives the customer access to all of the latest cultural feature information for the entire nation right at their fingertips for use whenever they need it.

UBA is a subscription product. For only $500 per month, clients can for the first time have more than 40 layers of cultural feature data on their desktops. These layers include the latest county boundaries, city boundaries, federal and Indian lands, roads, airports, water bodies, railroads, power lines, and several others. For details on an UBA subscription, call WhiteStar Customer Service at 1-800-736-MAPS.

UBA is fully compatible with the Unlimited Grid Access (UGA) product introduced by WhiteStar in 2006. UGA is a seamless digital mosaic of land survey and fitted county boundaries covering all public land survey states, Texas, and Offshore State and Federal Waters in the Gulf of Mexico.

About WhiteStar Corp.
Headquartered in Lakewood, Colorado, WhiteStar Corp. has supplied digital cartographic data products, services and consulting since 1990 to the oil and gas, pipeline, natural resource, and engineering industries. As a purveyor of geospatial data products, WhiteStar takes a customized approach to every implementation project. The WhiteStar client base now includes more than 1600 companies ranging in size from local consulting firms to integrated multi-national corporations.