Archive for the ‘Mapping Business’ Category
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……
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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
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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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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Ever need a quick sense of what state a ZIP Code is in? 5-digit ZIP Code maps of the entire US are impossible to work with, but Maponics has created - for free distribution - some cool 1-digit and 2-digit ZIP Code maps in convenient PDF format. Cli...
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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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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
We are very excited to unveil our new blog! Here you’ll find regular posts with unique ideas to help you improve your marketing, sales and logistics using geography-based tools. We’ll also give you our take on Maponics and industry-wide news, a...
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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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[read more] Tags: neighborhood boundaries, Neighborhood Data
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Check out this press release Tele Atlas has distributed discussing Maponics carrier route boundaries.
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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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