SpatialNews Press Release
WilsonMiller Joins Syncline's MapCiti Reseller Program
To Offer Web-based Mapping Services
www.syncline.com
-Leading Design and Planning Firm To Provide Collier County, Fla., and Other Clients with
Web-enabled GIS for Interactive Mapping, Spatial Analysis and Modeling-
BOSTON, Mass., and NAPLES, Fla. - December 17, 2001 - Syncline®, Inc., and WilsonMiller, Inc., a
Florida-based planning, design and engineering firm, today announced that WilsonMiller has joined Syncline's
MapCiti Reseller Program. WilsonMiller will now offer MapCiti™, Syncline's fully automated Web-based mapping
service, to clients interested in leveraging Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for interactive mapping, spatial
analysis, modeling, data management, land analysis and planning.
WilsonMiller provides a wide range of planning, design, engineering and GIS services to clients in government,
public infrastructure, land development, transportation, and oil and gas exploration, as well as to land owners, banks
and lending institutions, and realtors. These clients rely on GIS to better manage natural resources, to understand the
impact of geographical features on planning and development, and to gather location-based information efficiently.
As a member of Syncline's MapCiti Reseller Program, WilsonMiller can offer Web-based GIS without the software,
hardware or programming expenses normally associated with in-house GIS development. Available through any
standard Web browser, Syncline's MapCiti service allows organizations to easily and cost-effectively create, publish
and share maps over the Internet. These maps instantly reveal trends, patterns and relationships not readily apparent
with traditional decision support tools. Web-based maps also help organizations maximize their investments in GIS
data by allowing them to make spatial information available internally - to other departments - or to the general
public.
"By becoming a MapCiti reseller, we've strengthened our GIS capabilities with a Web-based service that is a natural
complement to our current offerings," said John Boutwell, senior vice-president of WilsonMiller. "Our agreement
with Syncline allows WilsonMiller to provide clients Web-based mapping capability at a lower cost with shorter
development cycles and more efficient staffing than if they developed their own solution."
"WilsonMiller has earned a reputation as one of the leading land-planning and design firms in the United States, and
we're looking forward to working with them to introduce MapCiti to new customers and markets," said Matthew
Gentile, president and CEO of Syncline. "Working together, we can provide our joint customers with the mapping
tools and expertise they need to implement and support a powerful Web-based GIS that can improve decision-
making and enhance communication across the organization or with the community."
Collier County, Fla., First to Benefit from Reseller Agreement
Recognizing the value of GIS to e-government services, Collier County, Fla., has teamed with WilsonMiller to
implement a GIS for use among several of the county's administrative divisions. As part of the GIS implementation,
which is being led by the Assessor's Office, the county decided to use MapCiti to leverage their GIS mapping
efforts, providing immediate results and allowing maps to be more easily distributed to staff. By using MapCiti,
Collier County has implemented interactive mapping at a fraction of the cost it would have required using other
methods of data delivery and reduced the time of delivery by at least six months.
Among the Collier County divisions taking advantage of the cost and time savings provided by MapCiti are
Community Development and Environmental Services, Public Utilities, and Transportation. The Community
Development and Environmental Services division is using MapCiti to distribute environmental constraints maps to
in-house staff. MapCiti also allows the department to make this information available over the Internet as a public
service. Public Utilities plans to use MapCiti to distribute water and sewer main maps to field personnel, while
Transportation will be using the mapping service to distribute road construction status maps to the public.
About WilsonMiller
WilsonMiller excels in large-scale projects that demand multidisciplinary teams, and is ranked the #1 design firm in
multi-unit residential in the United States by Engineering News-Record ("General Building--Multi-Unit Residential"
category, "Top 500 Design Firms Sourcebook 2001"). Typical projects include master-planned communities, resort
developments, transportation planning and environmental restoration projects. WilsonMiller operates statewide in
Florida, and in the Southeastern United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, with offices in Naples, Fort Myers,
Sarasota, Bradenton, Tampa and Tallahassee. The firm's 325 employees include planners, engineers, ecologists,
landscape architects, surveyors, transportation consultants and water resource specialists and geographic information
system professionals. For information on WilsonMiller's award-winning projects and capabilities in creating
exceptional places, visit the company's Web site at wilsonmiller.com or call 800-649-4336.
About Syncline, Inc.
Syncline's software and services enable customers to visualize and analyze spatial data using maps they create,
share, and manage via the Internet. The company's offerings are MapCiti, a hosted, automated Web-based mapping
service designed specifically for government and utilities; MapAnalyst, a data management platform that unifies
disparate data streams into "intelligent maps"; and an Enterprise Development group that designs, develops, and
deploys customer spatial applications. Syncline's partners are ESRI, GDT, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems. Clients
include Verizon, Telephia, USGS, the City of San Antonio, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Syncline,
which was founded in 1997, is located in Boston, Mass. For more information, visit www.syncline.com.
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