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Library Site Licenses for PolicyMap Now Available.
PolicyMap, an online data warehouse and mapping application, is now available as a site license for school and university libraries.
The online application was created by The Reinvestment Fund (TRF) in 2008 and is now in use by local and state governments, non-profits, real estate professionals and students as a source of reliable data available through maps, tables and reports that can be incorporated into research, papers and presentations.
PolicyMap uses cutting edge technology that allows us to display highly sophisticated, fast and draggable maps in ordinary Web browsers. We call this technology and our platform “PMap”. The ability to dynamically render and customize thousands of shaded maps sets this technology apart, making it especially suited to interactive research and data analysis.
Learn more about how students and universities derive value from PolicyMap or jump in and start exploring. If you’d like to talk more about a license for your university, just send us a note or call us at 1-800-923-MAPS (6277).
For those of you who don’t know us, TRF is a non-profit community development financial institution that works across the Mid-Atlantic. We’ve spent the last 24 years financing affordable housing, schools, businesses, supermarkets and other projects that build wealth and opportunity for the people and places that need it the most.
At TRF, we have long recognized the need for good data and analysis about neighborhoods and have spent close to a decade collecting and analyzing data to better inform public policy and investment decisions. With PolicyMap, we have the opportunity to distribute and share information more effectively.
We look forward to working with you.
The PolicyMap Team
“I’ve found that PolicyMap is a very effective tool in transforming students from research consumers to research producers. In the past, my introductory research class students became discouraged before they could produce results. When I asked students to use PolicyMap to tell me some distinctive qualities of their own neighborhood, they were on the site and producing maps and analyses very quickly.”
– Mark Stern,
Professor of Social Welfare and History Co-Director, Urban Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania
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