Archive for the ‘ZIP Code Boundaries’ Category

New TIGER, Old Polygons

Thursday, May 15th, 2008
As those of you who are die-hard GIS types know, the Census Bureau recently released a new set of their map data. One great new aspect of this data is that it now comes in shapefile format! It also appears that they have updated several counties wor... [read more]

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New Carrier Route Map Data with Record Coverage

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Version 1.8.2 of Maponics Postal Map Data is now available - featuring significant enhancements over every previous release! This latest release includes 640,000 mapped carrier routes; we believe that’s over 100k more than any other provider ... [read more]

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HelloMetro Chooses Maponics Data to Power Local Search

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…… http://www... [read more]

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Magic Polygons

Monday, March 10th, 2008
We used another company’s data for years. We never thought we could do it ourselves. But boy were we wrong. Buckets of Map Data You see, making postal carrier route boundaries is hard. No, it’s beyond hard. It’s nearly impossibl... [read more]

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8 Misbeliefs About Making Map Data

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 ... [read more]

Posted in Map Data, Mapping Business, Neighborhood Boundaries, ZIP Code Boundaries | 2 Comments »

Neighborhoods Eat ZIP Codes - and other Urban myths

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... [read more]

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