It proves crunchbase is growing pretty linearly.

Of course maptimize clustering engine is still working as fast as the first day with only 5000 companies!

Can’t wait to have twice or ten times geotagged companies on crunchpanorama.

Guy King, Technical Director, said to us:

When RetailMeNot.com decided to display tens of thousands of local coupons on a map, Maptimize was a great development shortcut for us.
Fast to implement, robust, easy-to-use and with a flexible feature set, we’d highly recommend Maptimize to anyone looking to plot many points on a map

Today, we are proud to announce the V1 release of our service.

This is more than a stable release, we also added new features and made some big changes :

• We changed service name from Mapeed to Maptimize. This new name (Maptimize = Map + Optimize) describes better what our service provides.
• We added new features :
  • Labels: from now you can set labels for each point and filter markers with them. You can use up to 8 labels. To demonstrate this, we’ve updated our CrunchPanorama demo based on CrunchBase. There are two labels: companies and financial organizations.
  • HTML Content: you can also attach HTML to a point, which will by default be displayed in an info window by clicking on the corresponding marker. With this new feature, integration in real world applications can take only a few minutes.
• We propose new plans: to better fit your needs, we’ve added more plans, from 19 € to 149 € per month. Of course, you can contact us if you have special needs.

Don’t panic ! Everything will still work as usual if you are using Mapeed Beta version, but we strongly encourage you to upgrade to this new release.

This is just a beginning for Maptimize : we are already working on our next generation engine. It will be faster, more powerful and with more features. We’re also planning to distribute it as a “classic” software for those who prefer to install it locally instead of using our online service.

Stay tuned !
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GPS Angel was one of the first early adopter of Mapeed. Gary Pigott who did Mapeed integration, told us how Mapeed has added a great value to his website:

“GPS Angel are bringing a new in-car GPS based speed & red light camera warning device to the US market. As part of the process we wanted to give our website visitors the ability to see the cameras we track in their area and also add freshly installed cameras. Because our database is so large it was not possible to plot all the points nation wide on a conventional embedded Google Map with acceptable performance. The first version of the website had to prompt visitors to select a US state before plotting points in that state. Even still, with some states having over 1,000 cameras, performance was a problem.

Now with Mapeed we can display the entire database together, dramatically increasing the impact of the site. The visitor can click on a given cluster to zoom into his desired location, until discrete points can efficiently be displayed. The complete conversion was finished in under a day using the supplied code samples and documentation.”

We are proud to see Mapeed community growing and we will post more success stories soon.

Of course markers and clusters display is still fast and reliable on crunchvision.

I am pretty sure that 10000 thousands should be reached in April. We will see.

This new map is about the japanese beauty salons in the Tokyo area. Good (and quick) job !

Areus Beauty

CrunchVision announced on TechCrunch

Ouriel Ohayon, from TechCrunch, wrote a great article on the famous website TechCrunch.com ! Wow ! Thank you Ouriel for the post and Michael Arrington for the “this is really cool” comment (and the IE bugs are fixed now).

Since last week, hundreds of companies have updated their profile on CrunchBase and they appear now on the world map of tech companies. The CrunchVision map is updated every day directly from the CrunchBase directory.

One cool thing is that you can get a direct link to your company, for example for Mapeed , the url is : http://www.crunchvision.com/company/mapeed .

Have fun with CrunchVision, locate the companies in your neighbourhood and develop your local network !

From now on, you can enhance your Google Map with the Mapeed technology. We provide 2 plans:
- a “Basic” plan : for simple needs, it enables the display up to 5.000 markers on a single map. For free !
- a “Plus” plan : fot more advanced needs, you can display up to 50.000 markers on a single map withenhanced security,  a sandbox environment and without any ad or logo (99€/month)

Just give it a try with the 5-minute test !

Last September, the Mapeed team has been invited by Google at the Google Developer Days event in Paris to present our plugin for Google Maps. We have performed a live demonstration during Patrick Chanezon’s keynote, with the Olympics Games medalists world map before and after the Mapeed plugin. We also announced the beta public stage by novembre 2008 during this session.

Thanks to Google and Patrick for the invitation and for the great welcome.