MAPWISE INC.
ARDMORE, PA

About the Company MapWise was founded in Spetember 2000 to provide real estate information covering the state of Florida. Founder, Brian May has twenty six years of experience working with GIS software, hardware, data, and analysis. Before founding MapWise, Mr. May spent ten years working on enterprise GIS implementation for the St. Johns River Water Management District. During his work with the government, he realized that government agencies generate a wealth of information that is useful to the real estate industry, but information was sometimes difficult to acquire and always difficult to use after acquiring it. Mr. May set out to change that by providing easy to use mapping related products and services that the real estate industry needed. MapWise collects large amounts of GIS and Property Appraiser data from Local, State and Federal governments, standardize data to a common format, and serve it up through web applications. Quickly lookup information on any property in Florida. Explore tracts of land seamlessly between cities and counties. Improve your mapping capabilities and research efficiency with MapWise. Real estate professionals including Realtors, Brokers, Developers, Appraisers, Surveyors, Engineers and Environmental Scientists rely on MapWise to get work done quicker and more efficiently. I use MapWise a number of different ways in the process of acquiring land and have always found it to be an incredibly useful tool. Initially I use MapWise to "look" at a property on an aerial while overlaying various layers (wetlands, flood plain, elevations, etc.) to determine a rough idea of its buildable area. MapWise is then used to determine existing zoning, FLU and surrounding land uses to understand if a rezoning would be possible if needed. Lastly, MapWise gives us the ability to pull resale comps of the surrounding area from public records to give a full picture of the area's value. I wholeheartedly endorse MapWise and feel it is the best value around as an all-in-one tool for your GIS needs in acquiring land.