Archive for the ‘Mapping Business’ 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...
[read more] Tags: neighborhood boundaries, Neighborhood Data, neighborhood information, neighborhood map data
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
Have you ever had one of those “Wow, if I had only known this existed” moments? Well unless you’re a direct mail veteran, a visit to the USPS’s Business 101 section will leave you feeling that way. There you’ll find a ton of handy tips, r...
[read more] Tags: direct mail, direct mail tools, mailing tools, usps tools
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Thanks to a huge surge in customers, we have four new positions open! Interested in joining us here at Maponics? We’re looking for exceptional people to fill these roles:
Account Executive
This outbound individual will be creating new business ...
[read more] Tags: GIS jobs, GIS positions, Mapping positions
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
I admit it.
We’ve cut corners on client mapping projects.
Left off a compass rose here. Skipped a label optimization there. Little things that any cartographer worth her salt would know from Cartography 101 shouldn’t be dropped.
[A gre...
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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, May 27th, 2008
We are excited to announce that Mark Friend has joined our team as Director of Sales. In addition to a strong tennis game, Mark brings with him 15 years of technical sales and sales management experience. This includes a substantial background in geo...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Another site that I check out when I can is The Map Room. This is a fascinating blog about maps and anything to do with mapping. The author, Jonathan Crowe, has been blogging since 2003. His frequent posts cover an enormous range of topics, from ba...
[read more] Tags: Cool Cartography Sites
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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] Tags: Canadian Postal Boundaries, US Census Data, ZCTAs
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
As a cartographer, I periodically visit many of the thousands of mapping and geography related websites out there, in order to stay on top of new features and tools. To my surprise, I found a real gem today: The National Geographic Map of the Day....
[read more] Tags: Cool cartography websites
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
We periodically analyze the rate at which carrier routes change, so that we can provide accurate guidance on how frequently our customers should update their maps and reports. Each time we run these analyses on our carrier route map data (see a past...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
If you have been involved in map creation for any period of time, chances are that you’ve heard of ColorBrewer. Originally created for academics by Cindy Brewer and Mark Hanower, this popular site helps novices and experts alike select optimized co...
[read more] Tags: map color palettes, map color schemes, map color selection, Map Design
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
Ever need to find just the right piece of ZIP Code information? Here are a few ZIP Code related resources you may find useful and interesting. Leave a post if you have others to suggest!
Individual 5 Digit ZIP Codes
Map of Single ZIP Code Boundarie...
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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] Tags: carrier route boundaries, carrier route data, carrier route map data, postal map data, ZIP Code Boundaries, ZIP Code data, ZIP Code map data
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
ESRI’s Mapping Center is a year old and continues to expand its collection of useful cartographic information. While focusing on ESRI’s ArcGIS, most of the ArcGIS-related tools and suggestions can be applied to non-ArcGIS platforms, and ...
[read more] Tags: Cartography, Map Design, Map Making, Map Style
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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...
[read more] Tags: neighborhood boundaries, Neighborhood Data, neighborhood information, neighborhood map data
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
TypeBrewer.org features a great interactive tool to help you design optimized map templates. Rather than just providing a font wizard, the site allows you to explore how topography and font interplay. This way, you learn why map templates work or don...
[read more] Tags: Cartography, Map Design, Map Making, Map Style
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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...
[read more] Tags: local search, Neighborhood Data, neighborhood mapping
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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……
http://www...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Does your business use school district boundaries for marketing, planning, or representation? If so, are you willing to share how you use them? And where do you get them? If you aren’t using them, is there a reason?
School districts seem to ...
[read more] Tags: Real Estate, School Districts
Posted in Map Data, Mapping Business | 1 Comment »
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
This web page offers a fantastic explanation of the different US Census Bureau geographic units - check it out. From smallest (census blocks) to largest (states), you can learn how many of each unit there are, how often they change and more…..
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[read more] Tags: Census Boundaries, census tract maps
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