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Real-life Geographies Lie at the Heart of Context
When someone asks where you’re from – what you like or don’t like, why you moved there, what you do for fun – you’ll likely talk about the people, activities, and cultural offerings of the particular...
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Getting Girls Interested in STEM – An Interactive Map
The STEM fields – science, technology, engineering and math – are dominated by males, both in educational settings and in the workforce. Given that women in STEM jobs earn 33% more than their...
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What Makes a Neighborhood Walkable? Fast Company “Talks the Walk”
It’s the weekend, the skies are blue – a great time to take a walk to a nearby park. But if you want it to be relaxing and not stressful, you’d better do some research. The park might be a few blocks...
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Let’s Share! Mapping Gets Social with CityMaps
Is mapping still nerdy when you share it with friends and followers? CityMaps is betting that mapmaking can capture the imagination of more than just traditional map lovers. The 2012 startup recently...
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Free Tools to Create and Edit Location Data
Over the past decade, many open source groups have created free alternatives to commercial GIS solutions. In recent years, these tools have reached maturity, become standards, and offer strong...
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Geofencing Mobile Apps: The Matchbox Twenty Use Case
Mobile apps that use geofencing alert the user when you cross a boundary – say, when you drive into the parking lot at a shopping mall, step onto a college campus or arrive at a sports stadium. Mobile...
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4 Dangers of Using Low-Quality School Data in Real Estate
Schools lie at the heart of our lives – affecting our families, our homes and our financial security. We entrust schools to educate our children; we choose communities to live in based on the local...
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Washington, DC: The Fifth Most Walkable US City
If you live in one of the Top 10 Most Walkable US Cities, chances are you understand the benefits of living in a walkable town. For example, your promenades are probably safer and more comfortable than...
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Women in STEM at Maponics
Of the 21 STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) jobs at Maponics, 4 are filled by women, or about 20%. This is consistent with the overall proportion of women here: 25% of the employees, or...
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Seven Days: Maponics Is a “Tech Company That Can Help Vermont Lead the Nation”
Vermont’s weekly newspaper for news and culture, Seven Days, includes Maponics in its roundup of seven Vermont tech companies with a national or international focus. In Seven Local Tech Companies Prove...
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What Halloween Tells Us About Neighborhoods
For kids, trick or treating is mostly about filling a bag, pillowcase or plastic bucket with sugary loot. But it’s more nuanced for parents. A night of traipsing around town with kids in tow – knocking...
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Where the Boys (and Girls) Are: NYC Neighborhoods
The rental listings site and Maponics customer Zumper has access to data points that are often interesting to the average consumer. The infographic below is an example: Zumper created this map of which...
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“Unlocking the Local Web” – Street Fight Summit 2013
Maponics’ own Paul Gallagher, VP of Marketing & Product Development, and Elena Esteban, Director of Communications, traveled to Street Fight Summit 2013 in New York City last week. They enjoyed the...
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Maponics Context™ Offers Lifestyle Data to Home Buyers
With mortgage interest rates still tantalizingly low, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that more Americans are thinking of a home purchase as a long-term investment where they will live for 16...
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Why Data Providers Should Love the Infographic
Finding the story within data is sometimes challenging because of something we all have in common: our brains. In his article Why Abraham Lincoln Loved Infographics, author Gareth Cook explains that...
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NAR Survey: People Want Walkable Neighborhoods
What do home buyers want? A new survey from the National Association of Realtors says: a single-family detached house in a walkable neighborhood. Home buyers want to be able to walk to stores and...
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ZIP Code Demographics: Super ZIPs, Better Schools
Can a person’s ZIP Code indicate his or her demographic profile? Increasingly, the answer is yes – especially if that person lives in a “Super ZIP.” Residents of Super ZIPs are among the most wealthy,...
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Spatial Reasoning Needed for Analysis of Big Data
“Yes, data are undeniably important but they are not holy. Data are middlemen.” So claims Kirk Goldsberry, a visiting scholar at the Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis. In his article on the...
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Big Data, Big Dangers: Don’t Let Data Run Your Business
“Big Data” is a buzzword that has some companies convinced they will find useful and profitable patterns in large datasets. A byproduct of the Big Data paradigm is that analysts and developers with...
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Maponics at Real Estate Connect 2014
Real Estate Connect 2014 will be at the Grand Hyatt in New York City January 15-17, 2014. This year’s conference is titled, “The Connected Generation: Powered by Partnerships.” The 3-day event will...
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