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LightBox acquires industry leader BuildingFootprintUSA™
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Locate Precisely

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Diverse industries integrate BuildingFootprintUSA™ data solutions to solve critical business problems.

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BuildingFootprintUSA™ data includes up-to-date polygons or regions that represent the extent or boundary of every type of building including single family homes, retail, government, office, multi-family residential, entertainment, barns, industrial, garages, and more. We have created one of the most geographically accurate and comprehensive data sets of building footprints for residential and commercial addresses.

More About Our DataWhat is a Building Footprint?

Locate Precisely

Why estimate where a building might be located?

20-25% of all location assignments are inaccurate. Building footprint data locates an address at the most precise location possible — better than street level, address point or parcel accuracy.

Progression from street to address point to building accuracy
Locate or geocode addresses to rooftop accuracy; it’s the next level in accuracy from street level geocoding, address point locating.

Near, within, closest
Ask location-related questions with certainty using building footprints — how near is it? Is it within? Is it moving towards? — questions that you can’t reliably answer with other data.

List data connected to buildings
Link business-critical data to building-level geocoding accuracy. Connect business and household list data, or your own proprietary data to every building.

Analyze Accurately

How can BuildingFootprintUSA™ data improve the daily analysis that you perform?

Combine richly attributed building footprint data combined with your business data, and confidently use this data so solve your business problems better.

No more approximations
Great geospatial analysis starts with having the most accurate data to represent the locations you care about.  Building footprints represent the building or buildings associated with an address or addresses.

Use for any spatial analysis
Reverse geocoding, find the nearest, inside or outside areas of interest, line-of-sight, viewshed, overlap — all of these and more are possible with BuildingFootprintUSA™ data.

Use for any industry
There are no limits to what industries or what types of business problems can be solved with building footprint data.  Our customers constantly amaze us with how they can apply our data to solve new problems and solve existing problems with a better solution.

Visualize Clearly

Is it challenging to convey analysis and decisions to your organization?

Use building footprint data as the focal point of your map. Detailed cartography, 3D, exciting new data visualizations are all possible using richly attributed building footprint data combined with your business data.

Thematically shade your data
If your business problems revolves around buildings – where we live, work, and play – use building footprints as the heart of any map.  Convey data more accurately than using parcels or address point data to convey critical information.

3D Visualizations
Use 3D to show the heights of buildings or showcase buildings in 3D where the Z dimension comes from important business statistics — valuation, demographics, or more.

Get Context
Any map for any business problem is richer with building footprint data.  Building data provides context for problems as diverse as logistics, planning, asset management, emergency management and more.

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LightBox acquires industry leader BuildingFootprintUSA™

IRVINE, CA – February 1, 2021 – LightBox, a leading provider of commercial real estate data and workflow solutions, announced the acquisition of BuildingFootprintUSA™, the premier provider of building and structure boundaries for location analytics. With this acquisition, LightBox will immediately make building footprints available to its customers.

Connecting BuildingFootprintUSA datasets to LightBox data will create the industry’s only fully integrated parcel, building structure, and property attribute datasets for comprehensive location intelligence across the commercial real estate, telecommunications, routing & logistics, and insurance markets, as well as the broader geospatial ecosystem.

“This acquisition demonstrates our ongoing commitment to innovation that serves the commercial real estate ecosystem. We’re looking to replace existing information silos with industry standard linked datasets. Our parcels and property data will now be integrated with rooftop-level geocodes, addresses, and boundaries,” said LightBox CEO, Eric Frank. “We strongly believe the future is one of connected datasets and we want to drive this change for the commercial real estate industry in the US and Canada.”

BuildingFootprintUSA was founded in 2016 in Albany, New York. The company serves customers of all size within commercial real estate, telecommunications, insurance, and mapping solutions with high-accuracy location data to facilitate accurate site selection, routing, spatial analysis and data visualization. Customers leverage building geometry, height, and ground elevation data to assist in determining potential flood risks, expanding broadband connectivity, policy planning for safety and security, and broader geospatial analytics.

“Joining LightBox gives us an exciting opportunity to grow and deliver our data and solutions to a broader segment of the commercial real estate market in the US and Canada,” said Karl Urich, founder and president of BuildingFootprintUSA. “By combining our datasets with those of LightBox, we will be able to offer the most accurate boundary, address, and geocoding dataset available.”

To learn more about how you can begin leveraging solutions that combine the best of BuildingFootprintUSA and LightBox today, please visit lightboxre.com.

LightBox is building the world’s leading real estate information and technology platform. LightBox customers comprise all types of enterprises needing authoritative real estate data and workflow solutions, including brokers, developers, investors, lenders, insurers, environmental consultants, corporations, technology companies, and valuation professionals. LightBox is backed by Silver Lake and Battery Ventures.

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At BFUSA LightBox, we develop next-generation geolocation data centered on the built environment — where people live, work, shop, and play. Our hyper-accurate building and address data helps customers make critical decisions that are highly dependent on location. Learn more about BFUSA.

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