ZipRealty Announces Partnership with Maponics to Expand Neighborhood Coverage
February 25th, 2010
ZipRealty, a national real estate brokerage, announced late yesterday a partnership with Maponics for our neighborhood boundaries data. The integration of Maponics data will improve home buyers experience on ZipRealty by allowing them to search by neighborhood names and view more relevant neighborhood map information.
“Our clients have told us that searching and comparing properties by neighborhood is essential to purchasing a home,” said Myron Lo, VP of Innovation at ZipRealty. “After res... [read more]
Lender Processing Services Real Estate Group Licenses Maponics Data
February 16th, 2010
Announced today, the Real Estate Division of Lender Processing Services, Inc. has licensed Maponics ZIP Code and Neighborhood boundary data. LPS will use Maponics data for its property searches, maps and analytics in both desktop and web-based information distribution networks.
“Choosing the best local map data provider was important to us, because real estate professionals know their neighborhoods like the back of their hand,” said John Hensley, Chief Product and Technology Officer for LPS ... [read more]
Local Search Redefined: Maponics’ CEO Gives His Vision of the Future
November 23rd, 2009
How is local search being redefined in this age of mobile access and social networking? Earlier this month, Mike McDonald of WebProNews interviewed Maponics CEO Darrin Clement at PubCon Las Vegas 2009. Watch the video below to hear Darrin’s thoughts on GPS-based local search, “real-time” versus “for-the-future” searches, search by neighborhood and the new definition of “local”.
Darrin attended PubCon as a presenter for the local search and mobile optimization ... [read more]
U.S. Postal Service Overhaul Captured in Latest Maponics ZIP Code Data Release
November 19th, 2009
After its eighth consecutive quarter of significant financial losses, the U.S. Postal Service announced that it would begin a massive re-evaluation of its delivery infrastructure in February of this year (http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/2009/pr09_015.htm ). Aiming to cut billions in ongoing costs, the USPS planned to look at:
consolidating facilities (post offices, sorting centers, etc.)
reducing staff (mostly by not filling open positions)
reorganizing the areas covered by postal c... [read more]
Maponics Presenting at National Association of Realtors Conference and Expo
November 12th, 2009
Maponics CEO Darrin Clement will be presenting at the 2009 National Association of Realtors Conference and Exposition being held in San Diego, California, November 13th- 16th.
As a panelist for the “Going Beyond Listing Data” session, Darrin will be joined by Rob Hahn of 7DS Associates, Sara Bonert of Zillow, Eric Bryn of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World, and Jim Marks of Virtual Results.
Planning to attend the NAR conference? Here are the panel specifics:
Date: Sunday, N... [read more]
Maponics CEO to Present at PubCon 2009
November 9th, 2009
Maponics CEO Darrin Clement will discuss how spatial data enables local search and mobile optimization as a panel speaker at PubCon 2009 this week. This year’s conference, hosted by SearchEngineWorld and WebmasterWorld, takes place November 10-13, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Planning to be at PubCon? Don’t miss this panel!
Title: Local Search and Mobile Optimization
Day: Wednesday, November 11
Time: 10:15a 11:30a
Location: Salon B
Description: Local search now comes from a real converg... [read more]
Maponics Successfully Concludes Settlement of Its Lawsuit Against Factle
October 30th, 2009
Maponics, a leading provider of spatial databases and the developer of the Maponics Neighborhood Boundaries ™ product line, has successfully settled litigation against Factle and its owner, Bernt Wahl, for unfair competition, false advertising and copyright infringement.
The dispute arose over Factle’s unauthorized distribution of mapping products incorporating a neighborhood database purchased by Maponics in an asset acquisition. After Wahl and Factle repeatedly violated contractual terms... [read more]
Monster.com, Zillow.com, Lowe’s and CenterPoint Energy Choose Maponics ZIP Code Data
October 27th, 2009
Today we announced four of the latest businesses to choose Maponics for postal data: Monster.com, Zillow.com, Lowe’s and CenterPoint Energy. These companies join a broad range of existing Maponics postal data clients including D&B (Dunn & Bradstreet), Pitney Bowes MapInfo, and HelloMetro.
“We have been amazed at the response to the launch of our expanded ZIP Code data suite earlier this year, and are excited to partner with the new customers we are announcing today,” said Maponic... [read more]
