Have you ever wanted to learn more about what goes on behind-the-scenes in your neighborhood? YourMapper is website where you can access helpful, informative maps about a particular area.
The information you can get from YourMapper depends on what is in the system for your area, but can include maps of local historic sites, maps of pollution sites generated from EPA data, meth lab busts, crime statistics, locations of known sex offenders, political information, bridge safety and more.
Even for my small town, I was able to pull information about local sources of pollution, local historic sites, and local meth lab busts. Good to know…Apparently, though, the meth lab data isn’t available for nearby Tennessee, so you may not be able to access it in your area, either.
YourMapper also makes it easy for you to embed relevant local maps on to your own website, free of charge. Developers can also access the API to incorporate YourMapper into their own apps. The data on the maps is viewable on mobile phone browsers, also, so you can access it from wherever you are.
YourMapper is attractive and easy to use, and it’s cool that you can take their maps and embed them onto your own site. Competitor Everyblock offers a somewhat similar service, but only for major cities. As someone who doesn’t live in a major city, I appreciate the fact that YourMapper lets me access even the limited data available for my small town.
YourMapper would be useful for anyone planning a vacation or a move to an unfamiliar area, or who just wants to learn more about where they live.
What do you think of YourMapper? How much information were you able to get for your area? Let us know in the comments!
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Thanks for featuring Your Mapper, UsefulTools! Really glad you found the map embedding, API, and mobile access useful.
I’m not sure you looked at the site recently, but we added some more pages for every map. For example, a dashboard overview page with a heatmap, category breakdown, and date chart. See a blog post about it here:
http://blog.yourmapper.com/2009/09/feature-dashboard-heatmap-date-chart-category/
This is the dashboard for the national Meth Labs map: http://www.yourmapper.com/location/all/all/137/meth-labs
There are also specific location pages for cities and states, like this one for Tennessee:
http://www.yourmapper.com/location/TN
Speaking of meth labs, you discovered that there was no data for Tennessee on the map. We checked it out, and grabbed the correct data from the DEA. Ah, the joys of screen-scraping webpages that were generated by hand, because the gov’t agency doesn’t offer the data for download.
Sorry about that, and it’s complete now, so you can check out Chattanooga. Looks like this location is closest to you, off Brainerd Rd:
http://www.yourmapper.com/details/137/14491/102-south-howell-avenue.htm
Thanks for the additional info! Yeah, I know where that is…close enough to my old house that I could have walked to see the fire if it had exploded. We’ve since moved from that area.
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