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Blue Raster & Regrid: Empowering Parcel Data Solutions

Blue Raster is now an authorized Sales Partner with Regrid!

Regrid parcel data logoBlue Raster is thrilled to announce our partnership with Regrid to offer unparalleled property data tools. As a leading provider of nationwide property information, Regrid helps us expand our property analysis and GIS capabilities, providing comprehensive tools for Commercial Real Estate (CRE), land management, and urban planning. This collaboration allows us to deliver cutting-edge property data services that empower clients with the most up-to-date and accurate insights.

Enhanced Parcel Data Solutions for Property Insights

Our partnership with Regrid gives Blue Raster the power to provide you with competitive pricing for access to an extensive database of property boundaries, ownership information, and land use classifications, creating a powerful toolset for precise property analysis. For example, property records in Regrid's database include detailed insights such as calculated acreage, zoning classifications, ownership data, property tax assessments, and land value. This comprehensive information allows professionals across industries to make data-driven decisions, whether assessing investment opportunities, managing portfolios, or planning development projects.

Market Analysis for CRE and Land Development

Our property-focused solutions offer a unique advantage to Commercial Real Estate professionals by facilitating in-depth analysis of property portfolios, zoning regulations, and potential investment opportunities. The ability to analyze property information at this level gives CRE teams the edge in making data-driven decisions that optimize management and investment strategies.

The Regrid Property mobile and web apps.

Urban Planning and Smart Growth

With Regrid's property data integrated into Blue Raster's GIS solutions and services, urban planners and land developers can plan projects more effectively. Our tools enable smart growth strategies by offering detailed insights into community planning, infrastructure needs, and development projections, resulting in more informed urban development.

Seamless Integration with GIS

The integration of Regrid's property data with Esri's ArcGIS platform provides seamless data visualization and analysis. This makes it easier for users to integrate property information into their workflows, streamlining decision-making processes for site selection, infrastructure planning, and market demand analysis.

Next-Level Parcel Data Solutions for Every Industry

At Blue Raster, we believe that high-quality property insights are essential for our clients to thrive in industries such as CRE, urban planning, land trust management, and local government. This partnership allows us to provide next-level tools that open up new revenue streams, simplify project workflows, and enhance overall decision-making.

Whether you're working on site selection, growth projections, or property analysis, Blue Raster and Regrid's solutions can help you achieve your goals with greater accuracy and efficiency.

Explore how Blue Raster and Regrid can bring your property strategies to life and transform your decision-making process. Contact us today to learn more about how we can enhance your property data strategy.

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Exploring Commercial Real Estate from a New Perspective: Blue Raster Partners with AerialSphere

Selecting the right location for a commercial real estate project can be daunting, given the numerous factors that need to be taken into consideration. Often, this is done utilizing an overhead view of properties. Use of an Oriented Imagery Catalog (OIC) from AerialSphere and the Oriented Imagery widget now available from ESRI affords the opportunity to explore properties in an immersive 3D environment.

In this Commercial Real Estate application, Blue Raster:

  • Utilized Open Street Map data from ESRI Living Atlas
  • Configured multiple filters based on commercial real estate needs - submarket, available square footage, parking cost, and year built
  • Built Dashboard and 3D Scene elements to dynamically reflect filters applied
  • Integrated imagery from AerialSphere to show a point of view from a specific location or floor
  • Generated dynamic viewsheds to illustrate what can be seen from that location
  • Calculated travel time analysis polygons for multiple modes of transportation (both walking and driving)
OIC Oriented Imagery Catalog

Blue Raster configured an ArcGIS Experience Builder application to aid in the exploration of relevant commercial real estate data in a 3D scene.  Utilizing this application, real estate investors can hone in on the properties that meet their needs with specific parameters, and easily traverse the map to further explore the properties.  The integration of 360 degree imagery from AerialSphere provides a more immersive experience, and allows the user the ability to pan, zoom in, zoom out, and explore viewsheds from a given vantage point.  This can make all the difference in understanding the suitability of a site.

While this solution was originally developed to aid in the exploration of commercial real estate properties, this technology can be implemented for a number of other industries. Contact us today to see how we can use this technology in your organization!

Thanks to Kat Clifton and the team at AerialSphere for their collaboration on this case study.

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HSF Affiliates Sets Out on a Mission to Improve Mapping Capabilities and Customer Service

HSF Affiliates is a global organization that operates some of the most recognized real estate brands in the world, including Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, Real Living Real Estate, and Prudential Real Estate. As a leading provider of real estate services, HSF Affiliates requires the ability to manage and analyze vast amounts of data to better serve its clients and customers in the areas where they are located.

Building a Roadmap to Success

To achieve this goal, HSF Affiliates turned to Blue Raster. As an award-winning geospatial technology company that specializes in data analysis and data visualization, our team was tasked with finding a solution to improve existing technologies designed to visualize data, so moving forward, team members could better understand the market they’re in.

One critical task involved in this project was identifying required changes for importing files with existing scripts and determining, assessing, and resolving needed script modifications. Additionally, our team reviewed and updated the geographies used for zip codes, cities, and counties within the United States, as well as available county postal code data throughout Europe and Southeast Asia.

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Revolutionizing Data Analysis and Visualization for HSF Affiliates

In doing so, we were able to help HSF Affiliates update and improve their processes for analyzing and visualizing data. This means that HSF Affiliates can now better manage and improve data reliability for their GIS team and real estate offices worldwide by determining whether available organizational unit polygons and points can replicate the same level of production as produced with the United States’ data. They can also recognize the required script changes based on the organizational units' data quality. In addition to updates and improvements, we provided ad-hoc services at the request and direction of HSF Affiliates and their team to ensure that all needs were met.

Mission Accomplished: Empowering Global Data Management and Reliability with Blue Raster

Thanks to the expertise and customer service at Blue Raster, HSF Affiliates can now efficiently manage and improve data reliability for the various members of the GIS team and their real estate offices worldwide. Our team's extensive knowledge of the latest GIS technologies and the Esri ArcGIS platform, combined with our corporate culture of creativity, long-lasting relationships, and high technical standards, allowed us to deliver a cost-effective, successful project for HSF Affiliates. This is another great example of how teamwork and finding the right partners can help you achieve your goals.

Could your team benefit from data management and visualization capabilities? Contact Blue Raster today and let us help you achieve your data-driven goals!

ArcGIS Urban: Take City Development Further

Blue Raster Project Manager Megan Gottfried took her ArcGIS Urban skills to the next level at Esri’s "Deploying ArcGIS Urban" training. The training, held in San Diego just before Esri’s annual User Conference, included other Esri business partners, distributors, and advanced level users from around the world.

ArcGIS Urban is gaining significant attention in the GIS and City Planning & Development industries. The platform is a complete solution allowing municipal planning departments and development-focused NGOs to improve urban planning practices and decision-making on a city-wide scale. Users can use ArcGIS Urban to create 3D renderings of city landscapes, proposed buildings, and compare proposed site projects across key stakeholders.

ArcGIS Urban case study

Megan Gottfried used San Francisco as a study area for development and used ArcGIS Urban technology to assist the city’s urban planners with the growing issue of overcrowding. Key program features such as theoretical population and employment projections helped officials to understand the regional severity of the problem and work to find innovative solutions, while 3D building renderings with zoning and building setback details gave realistic building city scapes for user exploration.

San Francisco City
"Today's advanced GIS software can now model cities in 3D and integrate the full planning workflow, thereby dramatically enhancing efficiency and effectiveness."

- Scott Edmondson, Senior Strategic Sustainability Planner for the City of San Francisco

Other highlights of the training session included a product demo and an overview of the ArcGIS Urban system. in addition, Megan Gottfried was able to learn both the back-end and front-end ArcGIS Urban platform and provide clients with tips and best practices for deployment. Megan tested the many features of the ArcGIS Urban program and created sample projects & planning files for the San Francisco area. The event concluded with a Q&A session where Megan and her colleagues were able to ask questions about the program and troubleshoot some of their problems.

ArcGIS Urban Site Project

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Blue Raster is excited to begin offering ArcGIS Urban solutions for our clients. Are you interested in harnessing the power of informed planning for your business or municipality? Contact us today!

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Explore the Indoors with ArcGIS

In July 2018, Esri announced a new product called ArcGIS Indoors. Expected to be available for widespread use this year, ArcGIS Indoors provides 3D maps, data, and location information for indoor spaces. With indoor maps, building operators can more efficiently coordinate resources with their facilities and explore their data to operate more competitively.

How does it work?

ArcGIS Indoors places people and objects inside buildings such as corporate facilities, event venues, education campuses, and more. The indoor mapping system uses a building’s floor plans, indoor sensor networks, and other data streams to build a comprehensive map of any indoor space. It is designed to work seamlessly with other parts of the ArcGIS platform, Powered by ArcGIS Enterprise and Portal, ArcGIS Indoors can be accessed and used for visualization and analysis with other Esri applications.

Examples of ArcGIS Indoors

Indoor Map of Campus

Workshop to Explore the Indoors

Project Manager Christina Phang and GIS Analyst Danny Cassiday had the opportunity to work with ArcGIS Indoors at a hands-on workshop by Esri in Redlands, CA. They learned about converting BIM and CAD into ArcGIS Indoors Information Models and extracting site plans from Aerial imagery to create complete site scale maps. In addition, they completed a technical deep dive into creating and generating routable indoor networks, as well as publishing web and mobile apps. The rest of the team are excited to see what Christina and Danny have learned!

Redlands collage

Get Started Today!

Let us help you deploy ArcGIS Indoors. Our team can assist with curating and preparing data for ArcGIS Indoors, authoring maps and scenes for ArcGIS Indoors Web and Mobile Apps, and configuration and deployment of Indoors Apps. We also provide custom solutions to extend ArcGIS Indoors, integrate it with third party systems, and customize the UI/UX (branding, colors, icons, images).

Learn more about how ArcGIS Indoors services and solutions can work for you.

 

 


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