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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 in the News

Ian — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:20:00 +0000

Rafe Needleman’s Webware offers a concise overview of UMI’s neighborhood database product.

What is Your Favorite Map Tile?

urbanmappinginc — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:18:00 +0000

MSR brings geo-philes something new to play with. The project (Hotmap: Looking at Geographic Attention aggregates map tile downloads at different zoom levels, allowing you to see that more map tiles for an area in the Gulf of Guinea (off the coast of Ghana) have been downloaded than for all of Africa.

-via Adena

Urban Mapping to Present at GeoWeb 2007

Ian — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:08:00 +0000

UMI’s Ian White will speak at GeoWeb 2007 in Vancouver, British Columbia, July 23-27, 2007. His talk, Web-based GIS or GIS-based Web?, will address how neogeographers have changed consumption habits of spatial data.

Power Moves in Local Search

urbanmappinginc — Thu, 03 May 2007 10:30:00 +0000

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!