PolicyMap Announces Unlimited Data Uploads and Sharing
Written by PolicyMap
Friday, 14 December 2012
Subscribers can upload, map and share their own point data with anyone, anywhere.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- With over 25,000 users and 600 customers, PolicyMap (www.policymap.com)
is a trusted source for quick, easy, online data and mapping. Today,
PolicyMap announces new self-service data loading, rooftop geocoding and
a restructured subscription plan, making its mapping tool the most
comprehensive and affordable online tool in the location intelligence
market.
Annual PolicyMap subscribers can visualize, analyze, and chart any of
the 15,000 indicators available. Now, with the same subscription, users
can upload their own point data and leverage it with PolicyMap's
trusted data - creating a robust, fully self-service GIS tool for a
fraction of the cost of traditional GIS products. No training or special
technical skills are required.
Users can upload an unlimited number of addresses at no additional
charge, and can keep their data secure and password-protected or share
it with anyone, anywhere. The data loader uses state-of-the art rooftop
geocoding.
"PolicyMap is truly a 'plug and play' solution," said Mary Tingerthal,
Commissioner of Minnesota Housing. "Using their interface, we can share
crucial geographic information with our customers. It is the simplest
and most cost effective location-based system we've ever worked with."
Standard subscriptions at $2,000 allow
up to 5 users across organizations. Premium subscribers can have 10
users, additional data services and up to 3 interactive mapping
"widgets" created for their websites.
"We want data to have a place at the decision-making table – and the
only way to do that is to make it easily accessible and understandable
by anyone online," said Maggie McCullough,
President of PolicyMap. "And it needs to be affordable. Our new
pricing offers data, features and access that you won't find anywhere
else."
In addition to subscriptions, PolicyMap offers data licensing. Using
the Data API, users can pull PolicyMap's trusted data into existing
mapping applications at a fraction of the cost of doing it by
themselves.
About The Reinvestment Fund and PolicyMap PolicyMap (www.policymap.com)
is a service of The Reinvestment Fund, a nonprofit leader in financing
neighborhood revitalization. A fully web-based interactive map tool (http://www.policymap.com/online-mapping-tools/index.html),
PolicyMap empowers decision makers with access to credible market and
demographic data in an easy-to-use geographic information system.
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