Urban Mapping Makes Neighborhood Data Available Free of Charge Through API
Posted on: Wednesday, 9 January 2008, 09:00 CST
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Urban Mapping, Inc. (UMI) the leading provider of enhanced of local interactive content, today announced the introduction of its free API for neighborhoods, allowing developers to build applications that are designed with local search in mind. More information is available at http://urbanmapping.com/freehoods.
Neighborhood boundaries are of significant value across the local search and interactive real estate landscape as they represent how users think about space, something ZIP code boundaries have proven woefully inadequate at providing. The UMI neighborhood database contains more than 25,000 distinct neighborhoods, each geographically defined. Coverage includes more than 1,000 cities and towns in the United States. A Canadian and European product includes an additional 100+ cities.
"We are thrilled to make UMI's neighborhood database available to developers. Those involved in local search have been craving a tool to translate fuzzy space into something meaningful, and our Urbanware(TM) product does that," commented Ian White, CEO of Urban Mapping. "Informal space represents how people think and it's high time for application developers to have intuitive, user-friendly tools."
Because UMI already provides its core database to leading portals, companies within the search marketing ecosystem are able to leverage the same geographic definitions for the same geographic keywords. Using the Urban Mapping geographic definitions, smaller organizations can reap benefits previously unavailable to them.
Developers may register for the free neighborhood API at http://urbanmapping.com/webinquiry.html.
Urban Mapping's Urbanware products enhance the value of local content for interactive platforms. Its flagship product, Urbanware Neighborhoods, is a database of informal space, is used by all major portals, map platforms and Internet yellow page publishers including Microsoft's Virtual Earth, MapQuest and YellowPages.com. The company also offers a database of mass transit systems and a novel geotargeting solution focused on the needs of local search. For more information about Urban Mapping, visit http://www.urbanmapping.com/.
Urban Mapping and Urbanware are trademarks of Urban Mapping, Inc. Contact: Rebecca Fachner Tel: 415-946-8170 x81 press@urbanmapping.com
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Urban Mapping, Inc.
CONTACT: Rebecca Fachner of Urban Mapping, Inc., +1-415-946-8170, ext.81, press@urbanmapping.com
Web site: http://www.urbanmapping.com/http://urbanmapping.com/freehoods
Source: PRNewswire
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Posted by Maponics on 02/03/2009, 14:15 You may also be interested to learn about this news from local search map data provider Maponics. MAPONICS SPATIAL API - Neighborhood Data ™ Now In Beta With this release, Maponics becomes the first data development company to deliver ready-to-map neighborhood boundaries (not just neighborhood-level information) as well as other neighborhood data via API. This database covers 60,000 (Q109) neighborhoods in over 2,300 U.S. and Canadian cities. API access to all Maponics neighborhood, ZIP Code and carrier route data is expected to be available in March 2009. Read the full press release, here: http://www.maponics.com/About_Maponics/MaponicsNews/Neighborhoods_Data_API_Beta/neighborhoods_data_api_beta.html |
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