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Q1 Partner Spotlight: MapMart
Using spatial data to generate greater value for their customers MapMart.com was developed as an all-source, e-commerce enabled distribution channel for one of the widest consolidated offerings of...
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Tuesday’s Term of the Week | Anonymous Messaging
Social media trends are constantly changing. One of the most popular trends today is Anonymous Messaging, which allows users to send messages to others – within a specific radius of their own phone –...
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Introducing the Communities Product Family
The next logical extension of Neighborhood Boundaries has arrived. Meet Maponics Communities. This new product family offers highly localized and layered geographic views of consumers’...
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Peter Moeykens Joins Maponics as VP of Tech and Innovation
Peter joins the team with over 25 years of experience in building state-of-the-art cartographic database production and maintenance systems. Throughout his notable career, he has been a leader in...
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Tuesday’s Term of the Week – Location Analytics
It comes as no surprise that understanding the customer is vital to success in any business. Now more than ever, the ability to identify, track, and target customers in physical locations has become...
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Raising the Bar with Monthly Postal Updates
Thousands of businesses, ranging from small companies around the country to well-known Fortune 500 firms, rely on Maponics for spatial data and professional services. Business applications varying from...
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Tuesday’s Term of the Week | Geocoding and Geotagging
Customers often express confusion around the terms geocoding and geotagging. Geocoding is the process by which a location’s information is enriched with things such as geographic coordinates, land...
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Tuesday’s Term of the Week | Thematic Mapping
Smart businesses know who their customers are and where to find them. They know where and when trends are happening and when the atmosphere of a neighborhood is changing. Thematic Mapping is an...
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Tuesday’s Term of The Week | PSAP
Jay Jacuk, supervisor of dispatch operation at the Onondaga County Department of Emergency Communications, handles a call inside the agency’s communications control center. Nothing is more important in...
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Tuesday’s Term of the Week | Workforce Schedule Optimization
Time is valuable for us all. In today’s economy, wasted time is equal to wasted money, and that is why it is so important to take advantage of any tools available to save time for the company and for...
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Maponics Acquires Urban Mapping’s Neighborhood Database
Today Maponics announced that we have acquired Urban Mapping’s neighborhood database and product. We made the purchase for a number of reasons; with the most important being a tremendous opportunity to...
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Tuesday’s Term of the Week | SQL
SQL stands for Structured Query Language, an ANSI-standard programming language used to interface with and manage data in relational database management systems. Standard SQL commands such as “Select”,...
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Tuesday’s Term of the Week | “Polygon”
Simply defined, a polygon is a shape made of straight edges. In the GIS Industry, polygons commonly refer to a virtual boundary defining a certain geographic area by using longitude and latitude...
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Tuesday Term of the Week | Shapefile
A shapefile is a vector data format for storing geographic location, shape and other characteristics of a geographic feature. The format, introduced in the early ‘90s by ESRI, does not store...
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Tuesday Term of the Week | Centroid
Remember in high school when you were sure that you would never need to use all that math as a grown up? Well, it turns out that that was somewhat true. Our word this week is Centroid, which is a term...
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Tuesday Term of the Week | Overlay
There are many benefits to digital mapping. It gives users the ability to compare different kinds of information at one time. One of the ways this works is through overlay, a spatial operation in which...
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Tuesday Term of the Week | Spheroid
Continuing our series on interesting geographic concepts that you may never have thought about, this week’s term is Spheroid. A spheroid is like a sphere, but is not uniformly round. As it turns out,...
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Term of the Week | GIS
GIS stands for “Geographic Information System,” a specialized software that works with geographic data, allowing computer-generated maps to be created, edited, displayed and analyzed. Maponics...
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Term of the Week|Cartography
Cartography is a both an art and a science which goes back to our earliest recorded history. It is defined as the study and practice of making maps, and builds on the premise that information can be...
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Tuesday Term of the Week | Cartography
Cartography is a both an art and a science which goes back to our earliest recorded history. It is defined as the study and practice of making maps, and builds on the premise that information can be...
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