Mapping Data in Your Town
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The Your Mapper iPhone app gives you access to all of our national, state, and local data anywhere you are.
We want to make it easy for you to discover your surroundings, save favorite searches, and share what you find.
Features include much of what you can do browsing our website maps, plus:
Location Detection – discover [...]
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We’ve gathered detailed car and motor vehicle accident reports from all 120 counties across the state of Kentucky and put them on an interactive map, a heatmap, a mobile phone version, and into our open API.
Each vehicle accident report popup shows you:
the type of collision
the number of killed and injured people
how many vehicles and police [...]
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Today Google announced that using Rich Snippets makes it easier for search engines like Google to properly classify your site, recognize and understand its content about a particular place, and make it discoverable to users based on geographic location.
We’ve added these hidden RDFa snippets to all the millions of place detail pages across the Your [...]
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Google launched their revamped App Marketplace recently and Your Mapper is one of only two companies or individuals to have mapping services listed and be a Google Maps Qualified Developer in the United States. The other company is in Google’s home state of California, and there are 7 more internationally in Russia, Italy, Canada, the [...]
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We’ve been mapping contributions to all of Kentucky’s political races for a while now, grabbing data from the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance going back to January of 2007. Today we’d like to show how you can narrow this data down to one particular candidate or race, specifically, the race for the new mayor of [...]
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We previously discussed NYC’s BigApps contest and our Your Mapper submission. Today we’d like to tell you about our second submission called NYC BigMaps.
This submission is a completely new website, targeted just to the citizens of New York, NY, much like Metro Mapper is targeted to Louisville, KY. It was built in only [...]
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Heatmap pages are now available for every Your Mapper dataset. This means you can see a snapsot of all a map’s data at once, showing you the density of locations, and letting you drill down to the details in that area.
The heatmap shows up to 1,600 colored blocks. Each block is clickable, and the popup [...]
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There is a lot of data in the Your Mapper platform. Our datasets are collected by a variety of methods, from public data feeds, formatted and unformatted data, and through an official agreement with a city, state, or public entity. Now there is a way for you to see which ones come from official sources, [...]
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