Four years after Toronto-based location services company Absolute opened its doors, president Paul Kenyon is proud to say that it is finally fulfilling its original M.O. - to provide location managers with a fully digital, online locations library.

March 1 marked the launch of Absolute's Digital Locations Archive (DLA), which presently offers over 2000 location profiles available on the Internet to location scouts on a pay-per-use basis. Location profiles include contact and other textual information, as well as upwards of two dozen individual interior and exterior shots, some with 360-degree Ipix immersive imaging.

"The difference between us and any other location archive that I've ever come across is that none of them have such a comprehensive image bank," says Kenyon.

Locations can be searched by physical characteristic (e.g. detached home, brick fireplace), neighborhood, building type (e.g. courthouse, warehouse, fire hall) and many other descriptors.

To launch a search for a detached home with a brick fireplace will cost a location scout $.25 CDN. At present, that search yields 75 results. If a scout wants contact information and the exact address, they cough up $2.50. Once paid for, the scout owns that information for a month, at which time the URL expires.

Other functions available throughout the DLA are project bins, where searches for multiple production companies can be sorted, a discussion thread, calculator and invoicing capabilities.

Webfiles:
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