Mapping Data in Your Town
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GovMapper has been selected by KSTC for the respected Kentucky Enterprise Fund grant this year!
GovMapper helps local governments get their data online for the public. This grant will help us reach more city and state governments across the nation, and show them how to open data for their citizens, promoting transparency and [...]
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Apps for Californians has announced its winners. The CA.gov-promoted mashup competition launched in June was a collaboration with Google, Microsoft, Center for Digital Government and ProgrammableWeb.
Our Entry
We grabbed the Cleanup Site and Permitted Facility data from the CA Department of Toxic Substances Control and created a California Environment Report. This mashup provides an interactive map, [...]
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We’ve gotten a number of great testimonials from our clients recently, and wanted to share some of what they have said about our mapping services. Our government customers find GovMapper’s services to be affordable, fast, and easy to implement.
County-wide Property Values
“The ease and speed of putting interactive property maps on our PVA site was astounding. The [...]
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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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NYC’s BigApps contest is coming to a close, with only 2 days left in the voting. Our submission is called NYC BigMaps, and if you haven’t supported us yet by voting, please take a moment to register then do so.
This submission is a completely new website, targeted just to the citizens of New [...]
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Your Mapper has completed Google’s rigorous mapping certification process, and is one of the few developers to be listed in the brand new Google Qualified Developer Directory.
The Google Qualified Developer program was designed to recognize Google API and developer tools experts, and to provide those in need of development support with a directory of trusted [...]
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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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The city of New York is following in the footsteps of Washington DC and San Francisco by opening some of their municipal data, and then creating a public application contest. They call it NYC BigApps, a play on “The Big Apple.”
Your Mapper grabbed two of the public datasets (restaurant inspections and service calls), converted [...]
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UsefulTools, is “a web magazine for people who love web tools and apps,” and on Friday they listed Your Mapper as their featured Tool of the Day with the title “Local Data at Your Fingertips.”
They posted a detailed writeup of our services. Here are some of their comments:
YourMapper is website where you can access helpful, [...]
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Programmable Web, one of the very first websites to catalog all kinds of map mashups and open APIs since 2005, has listed the Your Mapper API in its open database.
Our API (Application Programming Interface) allows anyone to grab any of our maps, locations, metadata, and more on-the-fly to create their own web applications and mashups. [...]
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