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Maponics Releases The Only API With Neighborhood, ZIP Code, and Carrier Route Boundaries

by Zephyr on March 31, 2009 at 6:16PM

The Maponics Spatial API is live!

You can now access high quality carrier route, ZIP Code and neighborhood data for the entire U.S., without needing to host and manage this data in-house. If you prefer to receive a complete dataset, all Maponics GIS data is also still available for quarterly delivery in SHP, KML and many other file formats.

With this news, we are proud to be the first data development company to deliver its entire neighborhood dataset via API, including all neighborhood boundaries.  Maponics Neighborhood Boundaries ™ covers over 60,000 (Q109) neighborhoods in over 2,000 U.S. cities.

Here are some of the specific queries (searches) supported by the Maponics Spatial API:

• What is the neighborhood, ZIP Code or carrier route boundary (ready to map latitude and longitude points) surrounding a given address or location point?
• What is the list of neighborhoods, ZIP Codes or carrier routes closest to a location point?
• In what neighborhood, ZIP Code or carrier route does a specific latitude and longitude point or typed address fall?
• What is the list of neighborhoods, ZIP Codes or carrier routes that fall within a city, state or radius?
• Many moore, including custom data retrievals related to neighborhoods, ZIP Codes and carrier routes.

The image below shows the example neighborhood boundaries mashup from api.maponics.com, the Maponics Spatial API website. Click on this image to see the mashup integrate data delivered via the API live!

To learn more about the Maponics Spatial API, read our press announcement issued today, email us at api@maponics.com or call 800.762.5158.

Canadian Local Search Site Troovy Chooses Maponics Canadian Neighbourhood Boundaries

by Gloria on March 25, 2009 at 6:50PM

Troovy offers Canadians a great place to connect and find local business and service recommendations.  Today, they announced their choice of Maponics Canadian Neighbourhood Boundaries ™ to facilitate search and display by neighborhood.

The company completed a closed beta at the end of 2008, and is now live with over 500,000 listings across Canada. Troovy users can share reviews, ask questions of each other, and even share their current location with friends.

Canadian neighborhood data from Maponics offers thousands of neighborhood polygons for over 50 cities across Canada. Learn more about Maponics Canadian Neighbourhood Boundaries or read Troovy’s full announcement.