PRESS RELEASE
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Urban Mapping Makes
Neighborhood Data Available Free of Charge Through API
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Interactive Local Search Becomes
User-Friendly
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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Jan. 9, 2008 --
Urban Mapping, Inc. (UMI) the leading provider of enhanced of
local interactive content, today announced the introduction of
its free API for neighborhoods, allowing developers to build
applications that are designed with local search in mind. More
information is available at
http://urbanmapping.com/freehoods.
Neighborhood boundaries are of significant value across the
local search and interactive real estate landscape as they
represent how users think about space, something ZIP code
boundaries have proven woefully inadequate at providing. The
UMI neighborhood database contains more than 25,000 distinct
neighborhoods, each geographically defined. Coverage includes
more than 1,000 cities and towns in the United States. A
Canadian and European product includes an additional 100+
cities.
"We are thrilled to make UMI's neighborhood database available
to developers. Those involved in local search have been
craving a tool to translate fuzzy space into something
meaningful, and our Urbanware(TM) product does that,"
commented Ian White, CEO of Urban Mapping. "Informal space
represents how people think and it's high time for application
developers to have intuitive, user-friendly tools."
Because UMI already provides its core database to leading
portals, companies within the search marketing ecosystem are
able to leverage the same geographic definitions for the same
geographic keywords. Using the Urban Mapping geographic
definitions, smaller organizations can reap benefits
previously unavailable to them.
Developers may register for the free neighborhood API at
http://urbanmapping.com/webinquiry.html.
Urban Mapping's Urbanware products enhance the value of local
content for interactive platforms. Its flagship
product, Urbanware Neighborhoods, is a database of informal
space, is used by all major portals, map platforms and
Internet yellow page publishers including Microsoft's Virtual
Earth, MapQuest and YellowPages.com. The company also offers a
database of mass transit systems and a novel geotargeting
solution focused on the needs of local search. For more
information about Urban Mapping, visit
http://www.urbanmapping.com.
Urban Mapping and Urbanware are trademarks of Urban Mapping,
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Website:
http://urbanmapping.com
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