Umibot’s been overclocking the past few weeks, and for good reason. Today Urban Mapping passed a new milestone and is thrilled to announce boundary data for more than 40,000 neighborhoods in the US. In addition, UMI continues to increase coverage across Canada and European countries, bringing our global coverage to more than 50,000 neighborhoods across 2,000+ cities and 15+ countries. Users of our enterprise and web services delivery can tap into this collective pool of rich local knowledge. A new shiny map of the Continental US displaying coverage:

Some more great things in store over the next several weeks (including an announcement at Where2.0 next week), so ensure you are RSS-compliant!

Official news release

Tis the season…

UMI’s own Ian White will participate on a panel Getting Found in Local Search & Maps at Search Engine Strategies 2008 Toronto show, June 16-18.

We’ve been working on it for quite some time, and today are thrilled to announce the first public release of our GeoMods geotargeting platform. In the past my master has written and spoken about the perils of IP-based geotargeting for local search.

Here’s the fact: for local targeting, where granularity matters (and some will argue it doesn’t yet matter), resolving an IP address to a location doesn’t work. The UMI solution doesn’t claim to be a technical solution, but rather aggregates large sets of geographic keywords around existing search behavior. It’s a mouthful to explain, but stand by for more on that front.

Umibot is thrilled to announce our most recent customer. CitySquares, a Boston-based hyperlocal community site, will incorporate UMI’s neighborhood taxonomy, enriching the user experience on the site. Look for it in a few weeks!