March 26th, 2010
Urban Mapping’s own Ian White moderated a pre-Where2.0 conference roundtable session about the future of the base map. While there will be a ‘real world’ panel at the O’Reilly conference next week in San Jose, Brady Forrest kindly volunteered to transcribe & post the pre-conference virtual roundtable.
With the participation of head of geography for US Census (TIGER), head of product for the UK’s OS, OpenStreetMap founder and CEO of Waze, there were many good points discussed, and more to happen next week–post your comments/questions/concerns to the O’Reilly post and we’ll try to work them in to the debate.
In case anybody is wondering why NVT/TA and others didn’t participate, they weren’t um, asked to. They serve the role of incumbent player a la Base Map 1.0. Also, Google was invited to participate to discuss Map Maker, their open source style map wiki, but they declined to participate.
Tags: base map, data policy, geodata, traffic
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February 6th, 2010
Several weeks ago we soft-launched something we’d been developing for the past six months. Mapfluence is a hosted geoservices platform, effectively allowing anyone to tap into the power of an on-demand map platform. At its core, Mapfluence performs two very powerful things:
This means time spent identifying, sourcing, negotiating, understanding, loading and maintaining data are no more. We do it so you don’t have to. The platform is built in the cloud–load-balanced, fault tolerant, scalable and with high uptime. This means enterprise customers can be assured of reliability. Mapfluence can tie into your existing mapping platform, you can use our custom map tiles or integrate with a business intelligence or home-grown application. Because the platform was designed for the web, applications can easily be developed using JavaScript and pushing a new era of geo-intelligence into the browser!
Tags: api, geodata, geospatial, map
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May 5th, 2009
New quarter, new update. Today Urban Mapping announces availability of 84,000+ neighborhoods across the US, Canada and Europe. This latest push reflects the company’s commitment to its flagship product. Developers are welcome to register for our free API and let the results speak for themselves.
Tags: geodata, mapping, neighborhood boundaries
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May 28th, 2008
As in, literally…
Today we’re excited to announce a partnership with Intelligent Direct, the market leader of custom print and data solutions for business. Through publication of custom electronic and printed maps of all sizes, companies can better manage the impact of location, geography and demographics.
Urban Mapping’s neighborhood boundary database will be incorporated into custom solutions. IDI’s MarketMAPS division has served thousands of clients in its 25+ year history.
Umibot is most excited about the offline possibilities. Even though it’s not clear if a bot can exist in the real world, there’s no question direct marketing does. And it’s huge. And small/medium-sized businesses think about overall marketing impacts and budgets, not segmenting by channel. This announcement is the first of several to link interactive and direct marketing efforts.
-The official news
Tags: geodata, local search, marketmaps, neighborhood database, offline marketing, pressworthy
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April 29th, 2008
Urban Mapping’s own (guess who) Ian White will participate at MediaPost’s Search Insider Summit May 18-21 on Captiva Island, FL. Ian will participate on several panel discussions and breakout sessions. Umibot is thrilled that UMI will be at the event as it will provide a good opportunity to take the pulse of search engine marketing and local search.
Tags: conferences, geodata, geolocation, geotargeting, local search, neighborhood database, neighborhoods, paid search, search insider summit, seo
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April 11th, 2008
Urban Mapping’s Ian White will perform a hat trick at this year’s conference, participating on a panel, Monetizing Maps & Mashups. Greg Sterling will moderate and other panelists will be revealed in short order…
Tags: conferences, geodata, local search, neighborhood database, pressworthy, where2.0
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April 5th, 2008
Umibot recently caught up with a few favorite blogs, including the -ist family. In not so unbelievable, yet simultaneously incredible fashion, here is the change of service announcement from hell.
Umibot may not be human, but he still understands that too many facts in too short a space equals too much confusion….Information anxiety, for sure. Stay tuned for UMI’s Urbanware Transit product–a fully robust and highly-structured database of mass transit systems.
Thanks Gothamist
Tags: geodata, local search, mass transit, mta, musings, new york city transit, subway, subway data, urban rail
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February 25th, 2008
After some hard work/late nights and prodding from the geo-techno elite, we’ve humbly completed and are pleased to offer RESTful access to our neighborhood API.
What does this mean for developers? Probably less time spent developing and more time doing. Since we offered the SOAP-based free neighborhood API last month, dozens of individuals and companies have signed up, and we’re confident this announcement will spur another wave.
We’re also thrilled to be using Mashery to manage our multiple APIs. Ciaran and team twisted themselves pretzel-wise to get us up and running in no time at all. Calling Mashery ‘on demand’ is exactly what what they offer, and it’s what they delivered.
The news release with a quote from Brady Forrest and other goodness.
Tags: api, geodata, geotargeting, local search, neighborhood database, pressworthy, REST, SOAP
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November 19th, 2007
Today Umibot is pleased to announce a partnership with Placebase. Their map Pushpin map API is powerful and gives developers great flexibility in creating applications. Pb will distribute UMI’s Urbanware Neighborhood data product. Their map tile factory has been hard at work, making freshly-rendered tiles of SoHo, Nob Hill, LoDo, centre ville and about 25,000 other names. A Manhattan demo is available for you to look at and play with. Note different layers of neighborhoods as you zoom.
The neighborhood data news over at Placebase.
Tags: geodata, jaron waldman, local search, map api, neighborhoods, placebase, pressworthy, pushpin
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November 9th, 2007
Rafe Needleman’s Webware offers a concise overview of UMI’s neighborhood database product.
Tags: geodata, geospatial, gis, maps, neighborhood database, neighborhoods, neogeoghraphy, panamap, pressworthy
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