How do you make a geospatial exchange a reality? You find great content providers to bring their wares to the market. Aerials Express (AEX) is one of those great content providers. With 420,000 square miles of high resolution aerial imagery over major metropolitan areas in the US (see map below), AEX brings base map content to “prime-the-pump” in the derivative product marketplace.
Christopher Warren and Bill Landis at AEX have been great. Their listings of AEX products address a big niche in our industry. High resolution imagery that can be physically acquired and manipulated with an explicit license to resell derivative works. Bill’s quote from the Press Release -
WeoGeo is an excellent opportunity for our company, said Bill Landis, President of Aerials Express. We are looking to WeoGeo’s advanced technology and unique distribution model to enhance the availability of our products into a wider range of GIS related markets.
It says a lot about the potential of an exchange-based market for our industry.
We will do our absolute best to make the market technology easy to use for search, discovery, and product acquisition. Its success will increase productivity and margins for all of its participants. Today, we mark its beginning.
Tags: mapping, Remote Sensing, WeoGeo
[...] I have to congratulate both Paul and Aerials Express on this news. How do you make a geospatial exchange a reality? You find great content providers to bring their wares to the market. Aerials Express (AEX) is one of those great content providers. With 420,000 square miles of high resolution aerial imagery over major metropolitan areas in the US (see map below), AEX brings base map content to “prime-the-pump” in the derivative product marketplace. [...]
[...] Aerials Express Signs Up for WeoGeo Market [Aerials Express] brings base map content to “prime-the-pump” in the derivative product marketplace. (tags: WeoGeo AerialImagery AEX) [...]
[...] This also opens up the possibility of data marketplaces. Paul Bisset has some great comments in the Fee thread on how they have done this with WeoGeo. I believe we’ll see several new creative ways to deliver “for fee” content to the GeoWeb (hopefully interconnected and federated), especially as tools and applications develop that can leverage the data. The beauty is we are opening a whole new market to purchase the data and services that did not exist before. [...]