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Mapfluence: Welcome to Geoservices

Ian — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 06:55:35 +0000

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:

Aggregates data of all stripes (public and proprietary) and makes it available through a data catalog
Provides access to data with robust visualization and analytic APIs

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!

Urban Mapping to Present at Wireless Communication Alliance

Ian — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:15:56 +0000

Urban Mapping’s Robert Hylkema will present at the WCA’s LBS Special Interest Group, July 28 2009 at PARC in Palo Alto. The SIG meeting, OnDeck: LBS Apps for 2010 and Beyond, will feature our URBANWARE Parking application, along with participants from Google, Yahoo!, Networks in Motion and others.

Urban Mapping Introduces Free Mass Transit Proximity API

Ian — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:30:07 +0000

Since everybody loves free (especially in the current economic climate), we decided to offer more free products. Today we’re announcing the Free Mass Transit Proximity API–this product was announced last November, and it enables developers to use location in (more) interesting ways: associate ad address with subway/bus/train station name, distance and other attributes. Or open your mobile phone and ping our API to tell you the closest train station to your location.

You can register as a developer, read more about the Mass Transit Proximity API and sign up for a key at our developer portal.

URBANWARE Mass Transit to the Masses

Ian — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:30:16 +0000

After our Mass Transit announcement last spring, UMI has been heads down, ingesting, normalizing, (re)validating, researching, verifying, and updating piles of mass transit-related information. Today we’re announcing the first of several key initiatives around public transportation: the Mass Transit Proximity API is born. Similar to our Neighborhood API, any bit (byte?) of content can be associated with relevant neighborhood (and now mass transit) information. A technical demo is available to help developers with documentation. Massively useful for business listings, real estate listings, mobile applications and a variety of other uses. We maintain an extensive collection of data elements and have several more exciting related announcements we’ll be making over the next few weeks. This one is the tip of the iceberg.

Why is this interesting/of note? Let’s say you run a real estate website. You have listings, demographic data, schools data, quality of live issues, etc…But what is the nearest subway station or bus stop? The Mass Transit Proximity API allows interactive publishers to append their content with UMI’s mass transit info, so that apartment for sale on 35 Charlton Street in Manhattan would have Houston Street Station (1, 2 train) and Spring Street Station (C, E train) associated with it. Sexy, no, but useful, massively. Do this with 100,000 new real estate listings per month or 15m business listings and there’s something consumers will like.

-The official news

Urban Mapping Neighborhood Database Surpasses 50,000 US Neighborhoods

urbanmappinginc — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:20:00 +0000

Another day, another milestone…

Our neighborhood database now includes over 2,400 cities across 50 states (and a few territories). We continue to increase breadth and depth, supporting enterprise customers and startups leveraging our Neighborhood API. International coverage continues to grow, and more news shortly!

The official word