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MapQuest and GlobeXplorer Expand Horizons with Cutting-Edge Aerial Images and Mapping Technology
Commercial Real Estate Companies Now Have Access to Integrated Aerial Images and Premium Street-level Maps
Take the presentation of your properties to a whole new level. Technology from MapQuest Business Solutions and GlobeXplorer gives your customers an unprecedented, 360-degree view of prospective buildings and spaces with interactive, web-based aerial and satellite images and detailed street-level maps.

The View From the Top
Using GlobeXplorer’s ImageBuilder solution and MapQuest’s Advantage technology, you can integrate interactive maps and aerial images directly into your web page or web-based applications. GlobeXplorer provides instant online access to the world's largest aerial image library. MapQuest Business Solutions leverages the same mapping engine that drives MapQuest.com to provide users with the industry’s best mapping of area roads, landmarks and neighborhoods down to the street level.

An intuitive, interactive interface lets users locate properties using an address or latitude-longitude coordinates and pan, zoom and navigate images to get a precise, accurate view. And because you build the solution into your existing website and applications, the functionality is delivered with your look and feel – enhancing the value of your brand. Multiple viewing, printing and downloading features also let customers integrate high-quality maps and satellite images into reports and presentations.
to create additional value for its customers and further differentiate itself from its competition.

A Business-Eye View
The GlobeXplorer and MapQuest technologies let brokers, agents, buyers and sellers make better, more informed assessment decisions! Benefits include:

• Unique views – high-resolution aerial views plus interactive, detailed street maps give users a complete view of property
   and surrounding area

• On-the-fly – Web-based access to views and maps gives users ultimate availability at their fingertips

• Save time and money – users can view property assets, evaluate site access and plan projects from a desktop or
   portable wireless device, with greater accuracy when compared to a typical site visit.

Costar Group provides sophisticated tools to more than 40,000 commercial real estate professionals.
Costar, a leading national provider of electronic commercial real estate information, accounting for more than 60% of leasing and sales transactions is already aggressively deploying the technology from MapQuest and GlobeXplorer to create additional value for its customers and further differentiate itself from its competition.

“The combination of MapQuest technology and aerial views from GlobeXplorer is a powerful one-two punch for today’s savvy commercial real estate professionals,” said David Schaffel, Chief Information Officer of CoStar. “Now a Webbrowser is like a virtual passport that gives your customers an insider’s view of any piece of property, without ever leaving their desk – that’s a huge competitive advantage.”

For more information about GlobeXplorer’s products, contact us at (800) 417-7808 or sales "at" globexplorer.com.
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