Official Map: Louisville Home Foreclosures

October 20, 2009

The Louisville PVA has provided Your Mapper with official property foreclosure data for the city of Louisville, KY, and we’ve turned it into an interactive map for you.

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UsefulTools Lists Your Mapper as a Tool of the Day

October 5, 2009

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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Location Browser: National, State, and City Pages

September 25, 2009

Your Mapper has a number of new features and pages that we’d like to point out to you.  Most are related to slicing and dicing our large databases in different ways and presenting the results to you visually.  We’d like to know which features you like the most, so we can know which ones to [...]

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Location List Page: Browse Locations, Unmatched Addresses

September 25, 2009

Your Mapper has a number of new features and pages that we’d like to point out to you.  Most are related to slicing and dicing our large databases in different ways and presenting the results to you visually.  We’d like to know which features you like the most, so we can know which ones to [...]

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Dashboard Feature: Heatmap, Date Chart, Category Breakdown

September 24, 2009

Your Mapper has a number of new features and pages that we’d like to point out to you.  Most are related to slicing and dicing our large databases in different ways and presenting the results to you visually.  We’d like to know which features you like the most, so we can know which ones to [...]

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Programmable Web Lists Your Mapper API

September 14, 2009

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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DC App Store: Your Mapper is a Top Non-Government App

September 14, 2009

In addition to being a proponent of open data on the federal level with Data.gov, Washington DC is also hands-down the best municipal area in the entire nation when it comes to putting their data online. That’s why we are thrilled to be one of their Top Non-Government Apps in their new App Store!
DC [...]

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Heatmap Prototyping – Crime, Meth, Politics Examples

August 27, 2009

We are working on some interactive heat map technology for all of our maps and data, and we’re very excited about it so we wanted to share it now.  The goal is to start showing the massive amounts of data we have in different formats to help reveal trends and interesting stories.
Heat maps can not [...]

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Microlocal Going Mainstream: EveryBlock and MSNBC, Patch and AOL, and Your Mapper

August 18, 2009

Four years after the first geographic, microlocal websites appeared, some have started to be acquired by larger companies in the hopes of improving local news and data coverage.  Yesterday, EveryBlock was purchased by MSNBC.com for undisclosed millions of dollars, and in June AOL acquired both Patch for local news and Going for local music for [...]

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Map Key: Louisville KY Government Property Values

July 28, 2009

Louisville’s PVA (Property Valuation Administrator) sets all the property values in Jefferson County Kentucky for government and municipal tax purposes. There is a PVA in each county in Kentucky, and they are run by the state government. They have an elaborate internal database that integrates with municipal GIS mapping software that the city [...]

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