| Website | urbanmapping.com |
| Blog | blog.urbanmapping... |
| @urbanmapping | |
| Category | Consumer Web |
| Phone | 415-946-8170 |
| Employees | 9 |
| Founded | 1/04 |
| Description | Web mapping and on-demand data |
| Seed, 5/06 STN Labs | $400k |
Urban Mapping provides mapping functionality and on-demand data services to simplify the development and deployment of sophisticated online mapping applications. The flagship product, Mapfluence, offers access to an on-demand catalog of 10,000+ high-value variables to visualize and analyze data using maps, tables and charts. Mapfluence is a powerful mapping platform accessible via APIs that serves the needs of business users via a standard web browser.  Since 2006, dozens of leading interactive publishers like Bing, MapQuest and Yahoo! as well as leading enterprises like CoStar Group, Tableau Software and CoreLogic have been utilizing Urban Mapping’s geospatial data and technology. Â
Mapfluence is a cloud-based mapping platform with thousands of content layers that can be visualized on maps, in tables and charts, or spatially analyzed to derive valuable location intelligence. The result is a powerful yet flexible mapping service, accessible via API, that serves the needs of business users via a standard web browser. By pushing geointelligence to the browser, Mapfluence enables users to analyze and view geographic information with ease.
Mapfluence provides access to Urban Mapping’s on-demand data catalog, which contains more than 10,000 variables across dozens of data types, including demographics, educational performance, business analytics, religion, political affiliation, transportation infrastructure, weather, health and industry-specific data. Data is organized for easy retrieval according to a geographic hierarchy which includes all boundary types – census blocks, tracts, neighborhoods, cities, states, countries, custom sales territories and everything in between.
| Website | urbanmapping.com |
| Blog | urbanmapping.com/blog |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | October 1, 2007 |
| Tags | mapping-api, neighborhoods, geocoding, polygons, geospatial, gis |
By marrying cognitive science with geospatial technologies, UMI has created a comprehensive database of neighborhood-level boundary data. This rich collection of knowledge includes over 400 municipalities in the United States, representing over 20,000 distinct neighborhoods. Coverage also includes Canada and Europe, and will include Asia and Latin America.
UMI also distributes data via web services, allowing customers to leverage Urban Mapping’s geospatial platform. This is ideally suited for organizations seeking to quickly migrate to a geo-friendly architecture, offering benefits previously limited to enterprise customers, without the need to dedicate specialized resources. Services are available using SOAP and documentation offers code snippets and an easy-to-use technical demo.
