Enhance land acquisition, management, and response capabilities with GIS for utilities.
Access detailed, accurate easement mapping for tangible business benefits.
Utilities have critical land-related decisions to make every year. Accurate mapping, good data, and the expert knowledge contained in ParcelsHD, CultureHD, and the 38 robust layers (including Texas) in our proprietary TrueGRID data layer are essential.
Whether you're routing transmission corridors across hundreds of miles or working out the intricacies of local service, our GIS data and software for utilities help you make decisions with confidence. You’ll be able to:
Mitigate environmental risk.
Effortlessly meet compliance requirements.
Optimize parcel data for legal searches.
Organize documents and contracts by easement.
It’s time for your easements to meet our expertise.
Whitestar Explorer brings precision location intelligence to utilities.
Whitestar Explorer instantly upgrades GIS for utilities so industry leaders can make smarter decisions, faster. Automated, precision land mapping software brings your analog land data to life, and expansive and accurate data add rich context to your land analyses.
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Explorer Essentials
Data only
Access the highest quality land data stitched together to support all of your GIS-related business decisions.
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Explorer Expert
Data | Software
Use TruePOLYGON, our precision land mapping software, to enable your GIS experts to convert your analog land information to digital polygons, all geocoded to our referential data.
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Explorer Enterprise
Data | Software | Implementation
Upgrade core systems across your enterprise by adding on implementation services that clear land information backlogs of any size.
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Reimagine how you think about GIS for utility companies.
Our precision-first location intelligence offers trusted GIS solutions for utility companies. You’ll be able to incorporate high-precision survey data from one map at one location so you can speed up workflows across planning, construction, emergency response, vegetation management, land, and legal. Plus, improve your automapping success rates and notifications. Finally, eliminate time spent massaging data from multiple sources, and replace the old way of doing things with consistent schemas and formats for data updates.
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Choose optimal routes for transmission corridors.
Review routing requirements for each jurisdiction, identify encroachments and any existing ownership of the corridor, and assess reliability and visual impact concerns.
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Empower field technicians with real-time GIS data for all mobile applications.
Replace static paper maps with updated and dynamic digital maps provided to the field technicians responsible for managing infrastructure maintenance and repair.
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Mitigate risk and maintain compliance.
Improve visibility to your land to enhance your compliance across key regulations, and reduce the risk of field technicians while deployed to or near private property.
GIS data for utilities
When you choose Whitestar Explorer, you’ll get access to linked and harmonized data across four critical layers:
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A proprietary national grid with 38 robust layers, including Texas, down to lots, tracts, and quarter-quarters — the most detailed and accurate grid database in the industry.
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State and county boundaries, surface contours, and more.
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Exploration header information, standardized status codes nationwide, and more.
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Complete parcel data with 260+ relevant attributes.
GIS software for utilities
Certain Whitestar Explorer solutions also give you the option of using our precision auto-mapping technology — powered by our best-in-class data.
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Automated software that turns paper into polygons and accurately positions them using our industry-leading data fabric (now with metes and bounds).
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The highest quality data streamed directly into your GIS and analytics applications.