PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- PolicyMap.com, a national online data
warehouse and mapping application, now offers subscribers an exciting new
tool: the ability to embed fully interactive maps on their own websites.
PolicyMap provides a wealth of neighborhood data through fluid online maps,
tables and reports.
This new offering -- The PolicyMap Widget -- is a customizable instance of
PolicyMap that displays interactive maps on your website in just a few, simple
steps. Like PolicyMap, the widgets can display data at a variety of
geographies -- from an address to a block group, zip code or congressional
district. PolicyMap widgets are fully interactive -- giving both the
visualization of a thematic or heat map and the underlying information for any
place you click.
"When Mercy Portfolio Services (MPS) partnered with the City of Chicago to
design, implement and report on the City's $55M Neighborhood Stabilization
Program, we created a system called Community Central. Integrating Community
Central with the PolicyMap widget takes us to a new level of data capacity and
presentation," said Bill Goldsmith, President of MPS. "It allows stakeholders
to analyze our work more strategically. With our data and PolicyMap's, we
track projects and identify trends affecting our communities. PolicyMap's data
warehouse and technology is unmatched in today's marketplace."
PolicyMap uses cutting-edge technology to display sophisticated, fast,
interactive maps in ordinary Web browsers. "These are not maps that give you
driving directions or help you find the nearest cafe," said Maggie McCullough,
PolicyMap Director. "But if you want to track unemployment or home sales in
communities nationwide, this is where to go. The ability to dynamically render
and customize thousands of shaded maps sets this technology apart, making it
especially suited to interactive research and data analysis."
To see a widget in action, check out TRF's charter school investments.
Or embed PolicyMap's first FREE widget: a national map of county unemployment
data. As the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases new monthly unemployment
data, your widget automatically updates.
About TRF and PolicyMap
A CNET Web100 award-winning online mapping tool that makes it quick and easy
to gather and analyze geocentric information, PolicyMap is a service of The
Reinvestment Fund, a not-for-profit leader in the financing of neighborhood
revitalization. PolicyMap empowers decision makers with credible market and
demographic data in an easy-to-use geographic information system. For
information, visit www.policymap.com or call 1-866-923-MAPS.
SOURCE PolicyMap.com
Margaret Bradley for PolicyMap.com, +1-267-304-5397,
margaret.bradley@trfund.com
