Visual Analytics Company nearmap Partners With Esri to Bring High-Resolution, Current and Historical Imagery to Esri Community

SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwired - July 20, 2015) - Aerial imagery and visual analytics company nearmap (NEA) (ASX: NEA) announced today a collaboration with Esri to provide timely, high-resolution imagery for use with Esri's suite of software. Through the Esri ArcGIS Marketplace, users will be able to instantly access up-to-date imagery captured at better than 2.8 inch GSD. In addition, a nearmap add-in for ArcGIS gives Esri users the flexibility to access current or historic imagery, arming businesses with powerful information to make informed planning and prospecting decisions.

"Esri has revolutionized the GIS industry from a thought leadership and technology standpoint," said Simon Crowther, CEO of nearmap. "nearmap's business partner relationship with Esri will make nearmap's time and money saving features available to Esri users through the online ArcGIS Marketplace. We hope this is the first of many initiatives we can introduce to the Esri community."

nearmap's innovative hardware and software solutions have transformed hundreds of industries including solar, construction, insurance, transportation and government. nearmap expanded to encompass U.S. urban areas in October 2014 and already has captured more than 50 percent of the U.S. population. Imagery is updated at the unprecedented frequency of a minimum of three times per year for all capture areas and as much as six times yearly in major urban areas.

"nearmap's incredible high-resolution, up-to-date imagery will be invaluable for organizations managing assets in industries such as solar, construction, insurance and local government," said Lawrie Jordan, Esri's Director of Imagery. "The ability to quickly roll back time and look at change is a unique benefit. Our users will have access to this imagery much faster and simpler now that it is accessible in the ArcGIS platform through the ArcGIS Marketplace."

Clear imagery combined with the ability to document change over time has already disrupted the geospatial industry. In the United States the government, solar, construction and insurance industries have quickly leveraged the power of nearmap to transform the way business is done.

Clark County has already been using the new Esri integration capability. "The clear image quality and quantity of flights per year will help Clark County's Tax, Building and GIS Departments work more accurately and efficiently," said Brian Bolduc GISMO/IT Clark County Senior Programmer Analyst.

Esri professionals will have the opportunity to see a live demo of nearmap technology at the Esri User Conference July 20-24 in Booth 2701. For more information about the nearmap Esri integration please visit: http://www.nearmap.com/esri.

About nearmap
Built around proprietary PhotoMaps^™ aerial imagery technology, nearmap is a visual analytics company with a focus on empowering businesses with timely, high-resolution and historic imagery. nearmap’s breakthrough technology enables imagery of unparalleled quality to be updated 3-6 times yearly helping businesses make decisions quickly and with confidence.

nearmap expanded to encompass U.S. urban areas in October 2014 and already has covered more than 50 percent of the U.S. population in the top 68 urban areas. nearmap is changing the way companies, communities and the government see their world. For more information visit http://nearmap.com/.

About Esri:
Since 1969, Esri has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The market leader in GIS, Esri software is used in more than 350,000 organizations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities. Esri applications, running on more than one million desktops and thousands of Web and enterprise servers, provide the backbone for the world's mapping and spatial analysis. Esri is the only vendor that provides complete technical solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms. Visit us at www.esri.com.

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