GlobeXplorer's ImageBuilder Web services: at a time when GIS pros everywhere are asking for...

For almost every GIS project on which I've worked, a sizeable percentage of our effort (and budget) went to identifying, acquiring, validating, and processing geospatial data to support our project objectives. Often, the geodata we really needed (features such as tax parcels and orthophotography) were either unavailable, too expensive, or couldn't be acquired in time to meet our deadlines.

Of course, the Internet has made it a bit easier to acquire GIS data. A Web browser or FTP client and a decent-sized pipe are all you need to access gigabytes of geospatial content. A