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“PolicyMap launched a new feature for subscribers that allows up to three points of data to be cross-referenced. …This is pretty interesting stuff, is it not? The ability to cross-reference different sets of data with factors like geographic location is really exciting.” – Marshall Kirkpatrick
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It’s official. We won! Thanks to you, our users, we were voted one of the top 10 “location-based” services websites for 2009. The only nonprofit to win in this CNET Webware 100 Awards category, PolicyMap joins a top 10 list which includes Google Maps, Google Earth and Microsoft Live Search Maps.
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New on PolicyMap this Week!
HUD NSP Round 2: As we did in the previous round for HUD’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP), we’ve mapped the indicators HUD wants applicants to use in applying for the program’s second round. They can be found in the State & Local tab in the Add Data Layer menu on PolicyMap. Remember, you can search the map by address, add an indicator, zoom in or out, and pan around to find your area of interest. Click on a shaded area of the map to find the score for that census tract. Maps can be saved as jpegs to pull right into your application. PolicyMap offers all these services for free.
3rd Quarter Home Sales: Census tract level home sale statistics (median price, number of sales) are now available for the 3rd quarter of 2008. With PolicyMap, you can now track home sale volume and price change on a quarterly basis from 2007. Look for 4th quarter 2008 and annual statistics in July. These are proprietary data and, as a result, are only available to subscribers. Not a subscriber? Learn more about how you can subscribe for just $200/month.
PolicyMap Moves to the “Cloud”: Over the last few weeks, we transitioned PolicyMap to Amazon’s cloud computing services (EC2. For you, it means the site is likely running even faster than before; for us, it means we now have the capacity to scale and expand the platform more efficiently than ever.
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This month marks the one-year anniversary of our launch in May of 2008… and, wow, has the site evolved since then. We’ve added more data, expanded your capacity to make unique custom maps, improved the printing capabilities, opened up the ability for you to embed maps on your website, pulled in a ranking function and given the site data download capacity. We’ve added transit lines, proximity to mass transit calculations, and most recently a whole new feature – Analytics. These developments were driven by the feedback you, our users, provided. Your input is what makes the site better. So, as we look forward to Year 2, keep the suggestions coming! They’ll shape our to-do list and make PolicyMap even more useful to your work.
The PolicyMap Team
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