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Surprising Facts about ZIP Code Boundaries
A variety of companies rely on ZIP Code boundaries – from online real estate portals, to direct marketers, to search engines. Although their applications are all a bit different, one aspect remains the...
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Is Los Angeles Really “Most Pleasant Place to Live”?
According to designer and software engineer Kelly Norton, Los Angeles has the most pleasant weather of any city in the United States. Norton analyzed weather data from the National Oceanic and...
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Building High-Quality Neighborhood Boundaries
Neighborhood boundaries enable consumers to conduct meaningful searches for homes and apartments. They help people more easily find products and services through search and local search engines. They...
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Data Crunching Panel Discussion at Real Estate Connect NYC 2014 [Video]
Last month, Maponics CEO and Founder Darrin Clement appeared on a panel at Real Estate Connect NYC 2014 called Data Crunching. In addition to Darrin, the panelists were Avi Gupta of Smartzip Analytics,...
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Demographic Segmentation for the Real Estate Industry
The National Association of REALTORS® 2013 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers presents interesting demographic information about the people who bought and sold properties in 2012-2013. The report...
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Women in GIS Professions – An Interactive Map
How many women work in the GIS field, and where are they concentrated? A new map aims to show us. To celebrate Women’s History Month, Dr. Linda Loubert, Assistant Professor of Economics at Morgan State...
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Mapping Real Estate Foreclosure Data Across the US
As the U.S. housing market slowly rebounds, foreclosure rates are continuing to fall. However, recent data suggests that improvement is slowing. Data from housing analyst RealtyTrac reveals that in...
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Top 10 Fastest Growing ZIP Codes
Lists of the fastest growing ZIP Codes are usually compiled using population data. But accurate population data is only available from the US Census, and the most recent measured results are from 2010....
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Yik Yak Uses Maponics School Boundaries to Stop High School Bullying
Creators of location-based app Yik Yak – which allows users to post anonymous messages to any other user within a 5-mile radius, like a “virtual bulletin board” - recently took steps to curtail an...
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Maponics Promotes Dan Adams to CEO
Maponics announced today that Dan Adams has been promoted from Chief Operating Officer to Chief Executive Officer. Maponics’ founder and former CEO, Darrin Clement, will stay on at the company,...
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Bikeability a Growing Factor in Commercial and Residential Development
Bikeability is getting more attention these days from developers, both residential and commercial. They’re recognizing that bikeable areas encourage bicycling for commuting, running errands and...
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Women in GIS Map Reveals a Global, Interdisciplinary Field
At the beginning of March, we highlighted the Women in GIS map, a crowd-sourced project that enables women who work or study in GIS to add their name, position and location to a worldwide map. The...
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Matt Barnum Joins Maponics As Vice President of Operations
Maponics has announced Matt Barnum as the new Vice President of Operations. Matt joins the company from TomTom, where he was the Director of the Location Based Service Product Unit. Matt held several...
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Making Sense of Big Data: Top 10 Lists
It’s the era of Big Data – which means it’s also the era of slicing and dicing data to make it understandable and interesting (and, ultimately, actionable). Infographics are one way to do this; maps...
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How to Use ZIP+4 for Direct Marketing and Marketing Intelligence
ZIP+4′s are the designation by the United States Postal Service (USPS) for a nine-digit ZIP Code structure. The USPS added the 4-digit extension to the standard 5-digit ZIP Code in the 1980s to...
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Analyzing Restaurant and Nightlife Data with Context Dining & Nightlife Scores
Maponics has released its newest addition to the Context™ product suite: Dining & Nightlife Scores. This dataset provides a snapshot of how easy it is to reach restaurants, bars and clubs within a...
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Direct Marketing in the Real Estate Industry: Carrier Route Boundaries and...
A real estate agent recently sold a million-dollar home. She wants to build on her success with a direct marketing campaign, reaching out to households in the area with similar profiles and letting...
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Neighborhood Boundaries for Social Networking – AlertID and Maponics
Maponics and AlertID have teamed up to provide a state-of-the-art social networking app that strengthens neighborhood safety. AlertID is the fastest growing neighborhood-focused social network that...
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Using Test Scores to Evaluate School Performance
According to recent data, math and reading proficiency among high school seniors in both public and private U.S. schools is trending down. The U.S. Department of Education has found that only 26% of...
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US Demographics: Common Languages by State
Ben Blatt of Slate created a fascinating map of the most common language spoken in each US state after English and Spanish: Image source: Ben Blatt/Slate To create the map, Blatt used data from the...
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