Off-Site Insight by First Base Solutions

How to get geo data for any industry Doesn't matter what you do, if you're doing it in Ontario, you need current, high quality maps and spatial data to support your business activities. Download the infographic to learn more.

To develop, or not to develop in the floodplain? I often get calls from developers, engineers, and regular home owners looking to make a few changes to their properties. If that property is crossed by a water feature, you may need to apply for a Development, Interference with Wetlands and Alterations to Shorelines and Watercourses permit in the course of having a development application approved.

Finding terrain mapping can be an uphill battle Elevation data from FBS is usually sold as either DEM with spot heights and break lines, or, as 1m interval contour lines derived from those DEM, but, we have a few other products you might not know about.

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 sell your geospatial data through MapWarehouse We've got aerial imagery in spades. It makes a great base for many types of projects such as pre-engineering work, estimating material costs, or just to add context to your line drawings, but we know there's lots of quality data out there that would complement what you already find on MapWarehouse. That's where you come in. Related: The Essential Cheat Sheet For Purchasing Digital Geo Data

What's in store? From Governments to Google, for the last 15 years, First Base Solutions has been the primary source for geospatial data and aerial image acquisition in Ontario. You might not know our name, but you definitely know our data.