Today Urban Mapping introduces its free neighborhood API for all developers and interested parties. This means you can send UMI a long/lat and we will return the associated neighborhood(s) point it is contained within. It also means no cost. No charge to you. Free.

Our Online documentation provides code snippets to help you along. We also have a great map of our US coverage.

Free neighborhood geocoding is important because it represents how people think about local–UMI has done the heavy lifting and documented more than 25,000 neighborhoods, representing every conceivable way of understanding informal space. For interactive applications, providing a data set that reflects, not determines user behavior is a novel yet invaluable concept.

The “official” news release for those who like reading.