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Base Map 2.0 (or, the Future of the Base Map)

Ian — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:30:37 +0000

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.

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!

Neighborhood Boundary Data Surges past 80,000

Ian — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:30:36 +0000

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.

Neighborhood Boundary Database Goes Offline!

urbanmappinginc — Wed, 28 May 2008 07:40:00 +0000

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

Urban Mapping to Present at Search Insider Summit

urbanmappinginc — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:37:00 +0000

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.