ISRB PCC is Back

The Protection Class Calculator is back. We have not hear if it back in its primary facility or if it is still in the backup facility.

ISRB PCC is Dark

Last night the facility housing the PCC production server has a fire. As a result the facility lost power and the Protection Class Calculator went dark. The system administrator is bringing up their colocation. We should be up again from this location, this evening.

New Geocoding Service Going Live

Late in the afternoon on June 25th the Protection Class Calculator will be moving the geocoding service from ESRI to Virtual Earth (Currently Know As Bing). This change will slightly change some of the results. The Bing service provides a more up-to-date dataset using a combination of data sources. If the returns you get are questionable, please let us know so we can help you clarify and if needed verbally override the calculator results. Our e-mail address is info@isrb.com.

The ISRB PCC is available both to registered users of our website (www.isrb.com) and as a web service. Watch for some enhancements to the information available from the calculator.

Changes Comming to Protection Class Calculator

The geocoding service used by the ISRB Protection Class Calculator is being discontinued by ESRI. The Bureau has started the process of changing the service provided for the geocoding and routing information needed to process the public protection classess associated with an address.

Bases on advice from our software developer and other the calls for geocode and routing will be changed to a Microsoft service. Virtual Earth reports to use the best of both NAVtag and TeleAtlas data.

As the new code is completed, it will be tested before being put into production.