Mapping Progress: KY League of Cities Conference

September 19, 2010

Last week we attended a state-wide municipal government conference and pitched our data mapping services to the decision makers in local government.  The Kentucky League of Cities conference brought together mayors, clerks, council members, and police from cities around the state, all looking to improve their cities.

Since governments are our main clients for mapping (though [...]

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Google Apps Marketplace Listing: The Only Qualified US Developer Outside of California

March 23, 2010

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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Political Contribution Mapping: Louisville’s Mayoral Race

January 19, 2010

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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Vote in the NYC BigApps Contest

January 5, 2010

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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Google Qualified Developer: One of 8 in the USA with a Qualification Certificate

December 29, 2009

Google gave final official digital certificates yesterday to qualified developers who passed their rigorous mapping certification process.  Your Mapper is one of only 8 map developers in the United States to become qualified!
The icon indicates those developers who have passed the program and obtained their certificate.
The Google Qualified Developer program was designed to recognize [...]

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Your Mapper Joins the Google Maps Qualified Developer Program

December 18, 2009

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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NYC BigMaps for NYC BigApps

December 8, 2009

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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DataSF San Francisco App Innovation Showcase

December 5, 2009

Your Mapper has been featured in the San Francisco’s Innovation Showcase. Mayor Gavin Newsom opened some of their city’s data and then asked people to submit apps using it.
We submitted our San Francisco Crime Map and they featured it on the DataSF site. Great work San Francisco!

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NYC BigApps Application Submission

December 5, 2009

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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Detailed Heatmaps for Every Dataset

November 23, 2009

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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