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.

Umibot feels that many readers won’t bat an eyelid over this, but my master feels strongly, so I must be a good slave and report…

The original idea was to have a Top Ten list, but frankly there aren’t many moves worthy of the Power Move moniker, so we will instead post them when we think of them.

Our favorite is AskCity’s draw-your-own-polygon and search within. There’s no hiding the fact that this take some serious geo-skillz to implement. To hell with ZIPs (or neighborhoods for that matter)–draw your own boundary!

This screen grab shows an area being drawn near UMI’s offices. As it is late morning, we are always hunting for new lunch spots in this half-industrial/half developed part of town.

This grab shows results–presto!