Trulia most folks have likely heard of; the company wants to making finding a residence easier with data and maps: Movity aggregates the geodata from a variety of sources and uses it to provide rich insights into any location. Movity is still in beta and does sort of the same thing, with a focus on more kinds of data (“geo-data, local comments, conversations, safety
stats, demographics, noise”) but also with a focus on maps and visualization. One of the folks is from cartography/design superstar Stamen Designs and the company is probably best know for WeePlaces.com, which I’ve mentioned before (1,2). It’s business model: advertising.
With the acquisition Trulia is moving to downtown San Francisco (so the staff can go to all those LBS conferences, no doubt!)
- Trulia Blog (Exactly no comments to the post as of 7:30 am EST, though this was announced yesterday. I’m not sure if folks don’t care, don’t understand or are busy with the holidays…)
- SF Business Times
by Adena Schutzberg on 12/22 at 06:16 AM |
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This month’s State of the Map US teamed with mappers, but not so many GIS professionals. A webinar on Esri’s Community Maps program drew 800 attendees just last week. Why are mappers and GIS pros choosing to give their data to one project or the other and what are the implications?
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by Adena Schutzberg on 08/24 at 05:26 AM |
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July saw more than its share of acquisitions in the geospatial domain. Among the players involved were large companies with household names like Nokia and Facebook, and smaller ones only known in tighter circles, including NextStop and Photo Science. Our editors review the deals and offer predictions on their success.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 07/27 at 01:00 AM |
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An article about the merging of data.gov with geodata.gov prompted many in the geospatial community to note concerns about the U.S. government’s transparency, contracting, and relationships with vendors. What made for all the consternation? And what can we learn from this episode? Our editors recapped what happened, what their further research reveals and what they see as the “take aways"for the parties involved.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 06/15 at 01:00 AM |
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