Digital Map Products Brings ParcelStream Web Service to Microsoft's Windows Azure

Digital Map Products (DMP), a provider of cloud-based spatial technology solutions, announced that ParcelStream Web service for nationwide parcel boundary data is now available through Microsoft’s (News - Alert) new Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket.

ParcelStream Web service from DMP is a turn-key solution for integrating parcel boundaries into mapping applications, company officials said. It has been readily adopted by online real estate sites as the standard for parcel boundary data.  It also provides services to other industries such as utilities, financial services, and insurance to enhance their mapping applications and decision analytics. 

Developers and information workers can access DMP’s parcel boundaries and parcel interactivity features through DataMarket. Featuring simple, cross platform compatible APIs, DataMarket also allows them to combine parcel data with other premium and public geospatial datasets. 

Microsoft’s Windows Azure Marketplace features a wide range of new Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) capabilities. Developers can leverage these capabilities to improve their productivity and bring their applications to market more rapidly.  

DataMarket, according to DMP officials, is the first component of the Azure Marketplace to be made commercially available. It is a cloud-based service that brings data, Web services, and analytics from leading commercial data providers and authoritative public data sources together into a single location, they added. 

“Microsoft is transforming the application development market by making the building blocks of cloud applications more readily available and lowering the barriers to entry for small and medium sized developers,” said Jim Skurzynski, DMP CEO and president, in a statement.

“We’ve long believed in the power of the cloud to mainstream spatial technology and we’re proud to be a launch partner with Microsoft in bringing our parcel boundary data to a much wider audience,” Skurzynski added.

SpatialStream is the SaaS (News - Alert) spatial platform from DMP. It enables the rapid development of spatial applications. Recently the company announced that RealEstate Business Intelligence selected SpatialStream to power the mapping in its cutting edge real estate analytics offerings.