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GDT, Questerra & risky business. (News Bytes).

Publication: Geospatial Solutions
Date: Saturday, February 1 2003

In the game of risk assessment, Geographic Data Technology (GDT, www.geographic.com) has signed a three-year agreement with Risk Management Solutions, Inc. (RMS, www.rms.com), a provider of catastrophe modeling for the insurance and reinsurance industry. The agreement continues a five-year relationship between the companies and allows further integration of GDT's Dynamap geographic databases into RMS' risk management software products and services for geocoding and mapping purposes.

GDT is providing databases containing geocoded U.S. streets and addresses, ZIP Code bou

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