| Website | urbanmapping.com |
| Blog | blog.urbanmapping... |
| Category | Consumer Web |
| Phone | 415-946-8170 |
| Employees | 9 |
| Founded | 1/04 |
| Seed, 5/06 STN Labs | $400k |
Urban Mapping, Inc. (UMI) offers digital and tactile products to support wayfinding and local content enhancement, including printed maps and spatial database products. The company provides geo-spatial solutions for such companies as Mapquest, Yellowpages.com, Superpages.com, and others. UMI also employs their user-driven research in developing technology strategy for their Panamap and Urbanware products.
| Website | urbanmapping.com |
| Blog | urbanmapping.com/blog |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | October 1, 2007 |
| Tags | ad-supported-software |
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.
