Archive for August, 2009

Trulia Partners with Maponics: Increases Neighborhood Coverage 300%

on August 25, 2009 at 3:23PM

Feedback and research has shown that offering the ability to search and compare properties by neighborhood is absolutely key to our customer base,” according to Emmanuel Fare, VP of product & user experience at Trulia.

Trulia Neighborhood Boundaries Image

With this in mind, the real estate giant extensively tested various neighborhood data sources,  and determined that, as Fare explains, “Maponics provided the best data and solutions to fit our needs.

Highlights

Here are a few highlights from the press release we issued today about this exciting new partnership:

  • Neighborhood boundary coverage has increased by 300% with Trulia’s  implementation of Maponics Neighborhood Boundaries.
  • This data now forms the backbone for the site’s local real estate guides, heat maps and sales comparable information, among other features.
  • The integration of Maponics neighborhood boundary data allows Trulia to better connect advertisers and searchers, by offering geographically relevant advertising down to the neighborhood level.

Read the full press release, or learn about Maponics Neighborhood Boundaries.

Maponics is Hiring

on August 18, 2009 at 3:36PM

We’re looking for two top-notch individuals to fill Product Manager and Developer positions. Learn more below or on our employment page.

Product Manager – GIS Data

Maponics is seeking an exceptional, goal-oriented product manager to handle the entire product lifecycle for all current and future GIS data products. Do you have a proven ability and passion for effectively navigating a market to understand problems and find innovative solutions? If you do, and you are also driven to complete product development deliverables on time and to spec, we’d like to talk to you. Learn more.

Developer – Spatial Data Systems

Are you an outstanding developer? We’re looking for someone to lead the initiative to build and supplement our spatial data assets through Spatial Data Mining (SDM) and advanced spatial data and processing techniques. This person will also be responsible for building tools that extract, correlate and aggregate spatial data for utilization within production and product applications. Learn more.

All open Maponics positions can be viewed here. We look forward to hearing from you.