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Local Onliner

May 27
2010

HopStop Explores The Local Potential of Transit Directions

Local consumers are presumably in buying mode when they are researching where to have dinner, attend an event, or go to the movies. How about when they are researching directions to get there? In fact, mass transit directions in themselves represent a host of opportunities for local services and advertising (along with parking garage info). …continue reading »

Categories: Google, Mobile, Verticals

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Sep 10
2009

Parking Data Ventures Teams with 6 Parking Cos

The next big vertical is…parking? Parking Data Ventures has been created to tackle all things parking. The five person, Baltimore-based service has created a database of 10,000 parking locations. It has partnered with six of the largest parking lot companies in the U.S. and Canada, and has info for 15+ other leading parking companies. It …continue reading »

Categories: Local Search, Mapping, Mobile, Verticals

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Jul 15
2009

New CEO at HopStop Pushes for Fast Growth

HopStop, which provides public transit routing and schedules, plus walking directions, has brought in new leadership and expects to pursue rapid growth to 200 cities. It is currently in seven markets (or eight, if you count Long Island as a separate market). New CEO Joe Meyer, a former Quigo and eBay executive, was brought in …continue reading »

Categories: Google, HyperLocal, Mapping, Mobile, Newspapers

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Jul 14
2009

Urban Mapping Seeks ‘Incremental Page Views’ to Neighborhood Maps

As noted in the above post, Urban Mapping continues to build out its neighborhoods and compete to license its neighborhood mapping API. It has 80,000 neighborhood maps developed. But it is also focusing on providing additional value with several features that add incremental page views, says CEO and founder Ian White. Relatively new endeavors for …continue reading »

Categories: HyperLocal, Mapping, Verticals

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Jul 14
2009

Maponics Adds Zip Code Data to Neighborhood Info

Maponics, a provider of polygonal neighborhood boundary data based on both GIS and sociological data, is launching a suite of services that match the data with zip codes. The Norwich,VT-based company, which has around 30 staffers, says it is now tracking 66,000 neighborhoods in the U.S. and Canada. Customers for Maponics data include Google, Trulia, …continue reading »

Categories: HyperLocal, Mapping, Shopping/Transactions, Verticals, Yellow Pages

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Oct 14
2008

Relocating? New Service Finds Similar Neighborhoods

Neighborhood-level intelligence isn’t always easy to find, for residents, travelers or resettlers. We have neighborhood boundaries, courtesy of the sociologists and mapmakers at Urban Mapping. But other information can be scant. Now we have another view from the real estate brain-trust of Niki Scevak’s Homethinking, which rolls out a service today that lets users compare …continue reading »

Categories: HyperLocal, Local Search, Verticals

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