As Greg noted at Screenwerk and Brady at O’Reilly Radar, Urban Mapping is opening up an API to its Neighborhood database. It is a smart thing to do as while this data is not widely available it will become more of a commodity as others with source neighborhood data start to distribute access to that data. I’m expecting that others will soon offer access to the actual polygon data as well. Whoever does that will position themselves as a Source of Record for this data. When someone starts layering support for adding user-generated content to the neighborhood data in perhaps a wiki manner (so Brady at O’Reilly could “describe my specific neck of the woods, Squire Park”) then I think someone would be positioned for some real monetization.
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