MapMart, the most extensive online source of mapping and image data sets, today announced the availability of the WhiteStar Wells, WhiteStar Grid and WhiteStar Culture data layer products as a new addition to the MapMart Energy Data offering.  This addition greatly expands upon the amount of data available to the energy and oil & gas exploration industries.

The WhiteStar data layers cover the full U.S. and include key offshore areas.  The Well, Grid and Culture data combine to provide the most up-to-date and accurate data of its sort currently available.

“WhiteStar has set the standard for mapping in the exploration industry for over 20 years.  Their data layer products fit perfectly with those of MapMart in their high standards for accuracy and quality,” said Michael Platt, President & CEO of MapMart.  “We are very happy to be able to provide this level of industry-specific mapping to our oil & gas exploration and energy customers.”

WhiteStar Grid is the industry standard source of digital land grid in North America. It is the foundation for accurate exploration anywhere in the United States.

By compiling and processing thousands of raw files from various State, Federal, and private agencies, WhiteStar’s expert technicians have developed WhiteStar Culture™, an exceptional cartographic data library consisting of seamless nationwide base map information layers.

WhiteStar data experts compile, process, and standardize well header data from thirty-four different State and Federal agencies and make it available via WhiteStar Wells™. WhiteStar Wells is a nationwide well database containing the geographical coordinates and well status symbols for more than 4 million oil and gas wells in The United States.

MapMart offers a wide variety of U.S. and International geospatial data sets, with additional data coming online daily to serve a variety of projects.  Some of the products currently available include: Hart Energy – Rextag Data; 3TIER Wind and Solar Data; DigitalGlobe Satellite and Aerial Imagery; GeoEye Satellite Imagery; SPOT Imagery by Astrium; RapidEye Imagery; Microsoft Imagery; Pictometry International Oblique and Orthogonal Imagery; Terrametrics TruEarth Imagery; Harris Globe15 and Conus10 Imagery; DeLorme World and North American Street data; BroadMap Street data; EASI Demographics; Intermap DEM data; HIDEM worldwide DEM data.

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