If any journalist/graphics editor/presentation editors would like to
check out Pictometry (which is detailed oblique imagery referred to
in the article below), please do so by clicking on this link:

http://images.pictometry.com/Glass/Trial/POL_Agreement_Short_Promo.php
?AC=7dias_tools_trial-jmarcus&promocode=7dias_tools_trial

The following media outlets currently have subscriptions:

USA Today
NY Times
LA Times
Washington Post
Boston Globe
Philadelphia Inquirer
Orange County Register
San Francisco Chronicle
San Jose Mercury News
Seattle Times
CNN

As a lot of new cities were flown in 2006, Pictometry is in the
process of signing up many more.

Regards,

Jeff Marcus



--- In JAGIS-L@yahoogroups.com, Tom Johnson <tom@...> wrote:
>
> An interesting piece in the NYTimes on Sunday,
> "Finding Tax Revenue Through Aerial Imaging"
> highlights yet another industry and example of how
> public administrators are using GIS, in this case to
> increase the revenue stream. We think that if
> journalists are not hip to these tools, then they
> cannot ask the right questions of the public's
> administrators.
>
> "...Until recently, assessors had to accept
> homeowners' claims or visit the properties themselves.
> But in 2003, the city hired the Pictometry
> International Corporation, a company in Rochester,
> N.Y., to provide images of every building in the city.
>
> Once a year, Pictometry flies a Cessna 172 over
> Philadelphia, taking thousands of black-and-white
> photographs. The low-altitude shots, unlike satellite
> images, show buildings at about a 40-degree angle.
> Pictometry's computers organize the photos so they can
> be searched by address. Nearly 200 employees in Mr.
> Mescolotto's office have the software on their
> computers.
>
> Pictometry has won adherents in more
> than 200 cities and counties, according to Dante
> Pennacchia, Pictometry's chief marketing officer.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/realestate/20nati.html