Greenwood Village, Colorado, August 25, 2011 – MapMart, the most extensive online source of mapping and image data sets, today announced the availability of the WhiteStar Wells™, WhiteStar Grid™ and WhiteStar Culture™ data layer products as a new addition to the MapMart Energy Data offering. This addition greatly expands upon the amount of data available to the energy and oil & gas exploration industries.
The WhiteStar data layers cover the full U.S. and include key offshore areas. The Well, Grid and Culture data combine to provide the most up-to-date and accurate data of its sort currently available.
“WhiteStar has set the standard for mapping in the exploration industry for over 20 years. Their data layer products fit perfectly with those of MapMart in their high standards for accuracy and quality,” said Michael Platt, President & CEO of MapMart. “We are very happy to be able to provide this level of industry-specific mapping to our oil & gas exploration and energy customers.”
WhiteStar Grid™ is the industry standard source of digital land grid in North America. It is the foundation for accurate exploration anywhere in the United States.
By compiling and processing thousands of raw files from various State, Federal, and private agencies, WhiteStar’s expert technicians have developed WhiteStar Culture™, an exceptional cartographic data library consisting of seamless nationwide base map information layers.
WhiteStar data experts compile, process, and standardize well header data from thirty-four different State and Federal agencies and make it available via WhiteStar Wells™. WhiteStar Wells is a nationwide well database containing the geographical coordinates and well status symbols for more than 4 million oil and gas wells in The United States.
MapMart offers a wide variety of U.S. and International geospatial data sets, with additional data coming online daily to serve a variety of projects. Some of the products currently available include:
• Hart Energy – Rextag Data
• 3TIER Wind and Solar Data
• DigitalGlobe Satellite and Aerial Imagery
• GeoEye Satellite Imagery
• SPOT Imagery by Astrium
• RapidEye Imagery
• Microsoft Imagery
• Pictometry International Oblique and Orthogonal Imagery
• Terrametrics TruEarth Imagery
• Harris Globe15 and Conus10 Imagery
• DeLorme World and North American Street data
• BroadMap Street data
• EASI Demographics
• Intermap DEM data
• HIDEM worldwide DEM data
About MapMart
IntraSearch, Inc., a Colorado corporation since 1951, is a fully integrated professional mapping services and product distribution company via its websites MapMart® and MapMartCloud®. MapMart has evolved over the past fifteen years to become the fastest and most user-friendly GIS and mapping data e-commerce site on the web. MapMart provides the most up-to-date satellite and aerial imagery, street network data, elevation data and numerous other products, many of which can be obtained within minutes. MapMartCloud offers nearly all the same data sets available as streaming web services available for immediate access. To learn more, please visit www.MapMart.com or www.MapMartCloud.com.
About WhiteStar
If you’re involved in exploration, you no doubt know the WhiteStar name. We’ve been in the energy industry since 1990 and our WhiteStar Grid has become the undisputed standard for land grid data. Even our competitors use it. But we’ve come a long way in the past 20 years. WhiteStar has continued to innovate and now more than 1,600 companies ranging in size from local consulting firms to integrated multi-national corporations rely on WhiteStar’s "Geospatial Wisdom" to get the answers they need to explore with confidence. WhiteStar takes a custom and synergistic approach in working with its clients. For each project we combine our accurate Data Layers with our Geospatial Wisdom to create an "Exploration Cube"— a strategic and precise layering of data that enables clients to see the "Big Picture" of their project in order to make crucial business decisions. Visit www.WhiteStar.com for more information.