Archive for the ‘Neighborhood Boundaries’ Category
Friday, July 18th, 2008
Cool news! If you are signed up for our quarterly updates, your neighborhood coverage just got 50% greater! Maponics Neighborhood Boundaries version 1.8.3, released today, features over 30,000 unique neighborhood boundaries in 1763 US cities and 241...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Two cartographers have joined our neighborhood data team recently, and we want to tell you about them! Eric Ballou hails from Chicago and has been living and working in Vermont since 2000. On weekends, you can find him hiking the Green Mountains, r...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
We are very excited to announce that we have increased our neighborhood boundary data coverage by over 30% today, with our latest data release! Read about our coverage expansion and our new neighborhood hierarchy in this press release:
Maponics Relea...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Have you seen what Boston-based CitySquares has been doing lately? Talk about a great local-focus. They’ve been at it for a while creating a real sense of local community. And now Boston residents can search for cool businesses and attractio...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
When people use the term “neighborhood” they can be referring to everything from a five mile radius to a few city blocks. In order to develop a nationwide dataset that reflects the diverse nature of U.S. neighborhoods, these neighborhoods...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
These guys have over 1,500 local city guides and they’re using Maponics ZIP Code data and neighborhood data as the foundation for their new “HyperLocal Search Technology”….check out their press release……
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Loopt has one of the more interesting geo-based business models: mobile services. Learn more at Loopt’s website and their recent neighborhood press release.
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Nobody - and I mean nobody - wants to see every property you list for a big city. Saying “your results found 4,982 homes in Chicago” is equivalent to saying “go find another site that lets you search more locally”. ZIP Code...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
All of you who are GIS professionals know this isn’t true, but there are some people think that simply marking up a Google map is an appropriate way to create accurate boundary data. Even within the mapping industry, a few commercial providers of ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Check out this article by Directions Magazine featuring Maponics. http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=2686&trv=1
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Are you digitizing neighborhood boundaries for your city? Or are you about to? You may want to check out Maponics’ “trade-in” program, where we’ll either pay you for your work or give you a credit towards our full neighborho...
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
See the news release for details.
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
ZIP Codes are dead. At least, that’s what some web marketers might have you think. Here’s why they are (mostly) wrong.
Local Targeting
In cities, people don’t think about ZIP Codes so much. They think about neighborhoods. So, if...
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