DonationChannel adds on-the-fly address mapping to its Enhanced Realbird Aerial Maps Viewer.

DonationChannel Inc. announces today the availability of dynamic, on-the-fly" street address mapping capability for the Enhanced RealBird Aerial Maps Viewer.

Redwood City, CA (PRWEB) August 27, 2004 -- DonationChannel Inc. announces today the availability of dynamic, on-the-fly" street address mapping capability for the Enhanced RealBird Aerial Maps Viewer.

The Enhanced RealBird Aerial Maps Viewer is a personalized GIS tool (Geographical Information Systems) tool for real estate agents. Agents can add the RealBird Viewer to their website, link it to any number of listings, display local schools information, view parcel lines and more. The Starter RealBird Viewer, with limited functionality, is available free of charge. The new, on-the-fly" address mapping capability extends the use of the Enhanced Viewer for large amounts of listings, making it possible for brokers, Multiple Listing Services and IDX feed (Internet Data Xchange) integrators to easily add aerial maps to listings.

"Our Enhanced Realbird Viewer is rapidly gaining in popularity in the real estate community. We are receiving inquiries about being able to service not only individual agents, but also brokers and MLSs with large amounts of listings, changing daily. Dynamic linking is a simple and efficient way to support such clients." said Gabriel Gross, President and Founder of DonationChannel Inc.

The service covers the continental U.S. and is fully web-based, there is no extra software to download. The price for individual agents is $125/year, and for brokers and Multiple Listing Services it varies depending on volume.

In addition to on-the-fly linking, the Enhanced RealBird Viewer has these features, with more to be added soon:

n   MANUAL LINKING TO PROPERTY LISTINGS: agents can link their listings to their own branded aerial maps with full zoom and pan controls
n   EMBEDDED SCHOOLS DATABASE WITH AUTOMATIC GOOGLE® LINKS to school info. At a click, clients can display the location of local schools, then click on the hotspots and see detailed information via Google queries.
n   EMBEDDED USGS LANDMARKS DATABASE : churches, parks, shopping areas, etc.
n   CRYSTAL CLEAR COLOR, 0.25 M ZOOM LEVEL, AERIAL MAPS in selected urban locations. The enlarged map viewer (600x400 pixels) uses the latest USGS aerial map databases. All USGS maps are included free of charge.

Separate from RealBird, the DonationChannel original website at http://www.donationchannel.org makes it very easy for real estate related professionals to sign up and commit to donate a percentage of their future real estate transactions to schools of their choice. In return, they gain the ability to promote themselves to their community with the "DonationChannel Seal of Contribution to the Community".

Please visit http://www.realbird.com and http://www.donationchannel.org for details or call (866) 551-2934, email: pr@realbird.com.

© RealBird and DonationChannel are trademarks of DonationChannel, Inc.
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