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.