It's always smart to recession-proof your business, research team, or department. One key way to do that is to review the items you must buy to operate, and see whether you can find the same item or service at a lower cost.

For those in business, government, or research who need web map images to do their jobs, MapSavvy is a potent cost-saving tool. As a source of web map images, MapSavvy is one of the most affordable sources of up-to-date aerial imagery on the market today.

How the MapSavvy Web Map Service Helps Recession-Proof Your Business, Department, or Research Team

When you can find a product or service that offers the same functionality at a fraction of the price of competitors, it's a no-brainer to pursue it. That's the case with MapSavvy, which offers an affordable source of aerial imagery at well below the price of comparable web map services. Here's how MapSavvy helps recession-proof a business, department, or research team:

Businesses — For businesses that make use of aerial imagery, it makes sense to switch if you can cut your web map service cost substantially. The money saved can be banked for a future need, used to buy a needed piece of equipment, or applied to marketing or online ads that bring in more customers.

Departments — Government departments that need aerial imagery are always under pressure to spend tax dollars wisely. When managers save money with a more affordable aerial imagery service like MapSavvy, they can apply the savings to a needed expenditure without asking for a budget increase — and demonstrate responsible use of taxpayer dollars.

Research Teams — Researchers and research teams are typically cash-strapped, with a finite amount of money stemming from a research grant. When research teams use MapSavvy as their source of aerial imagery, the money saved can be applied to needed equipment or to extend the research dollars and program that much further.

MapSavvy Helps All Industries Recession-Proof a Business

The MapSavvy web map service is helpful across virtually all industries and applications, because nearly every industry has a need to use web maps in the course of its work. Here's a quick look at how different industries use a web map service like MapSavvy:

  • Architecture Firms — architects use web map images in plans and presentations to clients and the public.
  • City Planning — city planners make extensive use of aerial imagery when planning areas of infill in urban areas.
  • Oil & Gas — web map images are ideal for assessing terrain and planning pipelines.
  • Public Safety & Emergency Management — web map images help assess areas vulnerable to wildfires, plan how to deploy and evacuate first responders, and develop post-fire or post-storm response and rescue.
  • Research — research teams studying everything from climate change to wildlife migration patterns use aerial images, both to assess findings and to convey them to non-scientific audiences.
  • Retail — images of specific areas can be used to plot store locations and determine geographic areas not served or underserved.

Whether a recession hits or not, it's always important to eliminate waste and spend money wisely so it stretches further in good times and lean times. MapSavvy — at $999 per year for up to 40,000 WMS requests — is one of a number of technology tools that can be deployed to recession-proof a business, government department, or research effort.

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