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  • Introducing the Sanborn Viewer!

    January 15, 2013

    Posted by Lauren Rosencranz | 2 Comments

    We’re excited today to announce the latest advancement to the Sanborn collection, called “Sanborn Viewer.” Along with the normal email delivery, you now have access to a secure, web based application for viewing and working with the Sanborn imagery!

  • What’s Your Marketing Plan for 2013?

    January 09, 2013

    Posted by Dianne Crocker | 0 Comments

    2013 is here and the market is one year further away from the 2008 collapse—and the painful period of layoffs and cost cutting that followed. The market now finds itself in a period of reinventing growth through business development and marketing. It is still a tough economic environmental with stiff competition for a limited number of projects and winning work in a smart, effective way is more important than ever. Being proactive about promoting your firm’s technical expertise is a way of taking control of your business, rather than letting the market control it for you.

  • Introducing High Risk Historical Records

    December 31, 2012

    Posted by Lauren Rosencranz | 0 Comments

    We are always looking for ways to improve the accuracy and completeness of our flagship product, the EDR Radius Map report. So, when we were thinking about important information that might not make it into a normal government records search, but is critical for helping environmental professionals identify RECs, we thought about how historical sources like city directories might be integrated into database reports.

  • Adobe Update May Cause Problems Viewing Sanborn Maps

    September 04, 2012

    Posted by Paul Schiffer | 2 Comments

    A recent update to Adobe Reader, the program most commonly used to view PDF files, is causing viewing problems for some of you. The latest version of Adobe Reader (10.1.4) has some issues with JPG2000 compression that will make it difficult to view compressed, high resolution images files- like EDR Sanborn Maps. Specifically, the zoom feature can become disabled for certain images.

  • The EDR Radius Map Just Got More Powerful in FL

    August 20, 2012

    Posted by Tom Hamill | 1 Comment

    As more information becomes available on state environmental agency websites, the data compiled in your EDR Radius Map Report is becoming even more powerful. States like California, Florida and Texas are digitizing their environmental records, making access to this information easier than ever for environmental consultants, but at the same time adding to the amount of information that might need to be reviewed in order to meet ASTM E1527’s “reasonably ascertainable” and “practically reviewable” thresholds.