Friday, August 7. 2009

Mapquest Adds Premium Datasets

Yesterday MapQuest announced new premium data available for use with its MapQuest Platform Enterprise Edition.

The Premium Data Sets include:

US boundaries:
-Address Parcels, Cities, Counties, States, ZIP codes, Neighborhoods, School districts, Congressional Districts, and Core Based Statistical Areas (including MSA's).
US Census Data (2000):
-Broken down by Block, Group, Tract, ZCTA, City, County and State
-Over 400 Categories to choose
Premium Business Listings:
-13+ mil US and 2+ mil Canada Business Listings
US Public School Locations:
-Includes over 102,000 public schools.
* US Traffic:
Incident and Flow data

I asked the source of these datasets, particularly the neighborhood data. Mapquest's reply: "MapQuest utilizes a variety of 3rd party sources to provide data as part of the Premium Data Sets Package." The company notes these data partners.