Off-Site Insight by First Base Solutions

If you can use Google Maps, then you're already an expert. It's much easier than you think. What's a TMS? TMS is a Tile Map Service. Aerial imagery from our planes is processed to create a highly detailed photo map that covers Southern Ontario. A grid is used to split the photo map into thousands of small tiles.

So... what exactly am I paying for? Do you know what vital piece of information you need to plan your project and can't find it? Maybe you're not even sure where to begin looking. Start by checking out the essential cheat sheets below - and visit FBS University for more reference materials and free sample data . What's available? How is a data product different from a similar data product? What formats are available? Who uses it and what's it for? How to get it? Related: Saving, Surfing, or Streaming? How to choose the data delivery method that's right for your project

How to choose the data delivery method that's right for your project It's come to our attention that many of you are confused by what data products FBS has to offer and how to access them. Sorry about that. We've been working on enhancing our websites and making more reference materials available. Below you'll find some handy cheat sheets to help figure it out. Related: The Essential Cheat Sheet For Purchasing Digital Geo Data

What can you do with tile index grids? Did You Know... You can download the coverage and tile boundaries for all the data you find on MapWarehouse ? A great feature for frequent users, yet less than 2% of customers are taking advantage of it. Free and unlimited Choose KML (for Google Earth) or SHP (for ArcGIS) Estimate your data requirements Order faster and more efficiently

Which image file format is best for my mapping project? At the MapWarehouse checkout, you'll need to choose a format for the files you've added to your cart before your order can be delivered. JPG and MrSID are the most popular compressed image formats. Both formats can be read by most up-to-date CAD and GIS software. The best file format to use for your particular project depends on what you're planning to do with the imagery layer. 

Opinions, facts, and data quality. If you're a real estate agent , a lawyer , or perform any kind of on-location service s for property management, you'll understand my frustration with maps that just look wrong. A common combination is orthophoto and parcel data. If they're both correct, why does it look like this in some areas when you put them together? Related: Top Three Questions About Parcel Mapping [Cheat Sheet]