Sample of Azavea's Projects

Sample of Azavea’s Projects

For a full list of clients and projects, please visit: http://www.Azavea.com/Clients.aspx

Azavea specializes in web-based geographic analysis and modeling applications for government (local, state and federal), non-profit and academic clients. We develop innovative, web-based software, web services and products that use mapping technologies and geography (GIS) to solve complex, interesting, and novel problems.

We have particular expertise in natural resource planning, economic development, crime analysis, real estate property analysis, and cultural resources, but are engaged in a wide range of other interesting projects.

We believe we can make a difference by promoting the emergence of more dynamic, vibrant communities through geographic information technologies. Each of our clients’ projects, products and pro bono engagements showcases this commitment.

Economic Development

Users can create scenarios that best fit their selection of weighted economic development-related preferences.

City of Asheville – Priority Places

Award: International Economic Development Council - New Media Award for Excellence in Economic Development

Web-based, publicly-accessible system that supports economic development and job creation by providing geographic planning and prioritization tools and data to assist businesses with finding optimal sites in which to locate in the region.
http://gis.ashevillenc.gov/mapasheville/priorityplaces/

250 local and regional indicators can be viewed as maps, reports, charts, histograms and can also be compared thanks to MetroPhilaMapper.

Temple University – MetroPhilaMapper System

Web-based mapping and report system that holds hundreds of regional indicators to assist users to measure conditions and track changes in communities across the greater Philadelphia region.
http://mpip.temple.edu/mpip/

Social Services and Juvenile Violence Prevention

An easy user interface enables users to find information about health and human services providers and map their routes to get there.

United Way of DE Pennsylvania and Delaware Valley Association for Education of Young Children – CONNECT 2-1-1

Web-based system that provides users with access and user-mapped routes to health and human services information for providers in health, education, employment, and food and shelter throughout the Greater Philadelphia region.
http://www.connect211.org/Home.aspx

The SMART system enables the mapping and reporting of 4.7 million records covering a wide set of national demographic information such as population, crime, housing, health, and mortality, spanning 12 years.

US Department of Justice: Office of Juvenile and Delinquency Prevention – SMART System

Web-based system that enables users to map and analyze nationwide aggregated community data along with resource information about federally-funded programs to address juvenile delinquency and crime.
http://smart.gismapping.info

Municipal Services

Map describing mortgages in Philadelphia in 2007.

Philadelphia Department of Records – LandStat

LandStat supports analysis and display of aggregated data for the City of Philadelphia’s land records information based on official documents tracked by the Department of Records.
http://www.phillylandstat.org/

The URLS system enables the disparate data systems of the major Philadelphia land record agencies (Revenue Department, Licenses and Inspections, the Police Department, etc.) to operate together with the City’s GIS.

Philadelphia Mayor’s Office of Information Services – United Land Records System (ULRS).

Award: Public Technology Institute - 2007-2008 Solutions Award/ Webservices category

The ULRS and Address Integration systems enable better communication between City departments and easier, more reliable access to land records.
http://www.Azavea.com/Clients/ULRS.aspx

ParcelExplorer provides users easy access to parcel-level data from several different city agencies. Information that was gathered by different departments is now in one place.

Philadelphia Department of Records – ParcelExplorer

Web-based system that enables the exploration of parcel maps. Containing the records for all land parcels in Philadelphia, ParcelExplorer combines geographic searches with historical and contemporary parcel-level data.
https://ework.phila.gov/parcelexplorer/

Crime and Public Safety

With the Philadelphia Public Crime Mapping Application, the public has easily access to crime data in their neighborhood.

Philadelphia Police Department – Public Crime Mapping Application

Web-based system that enables Philadelphia residents to search Police Department incident reports and generate maps of crimes throughout the city.
http://citymaps.phila.gov/CrimeMap/StepByStep.aspx

Officers receive alerts and view maps of emerging crime trends.

Pierce County - Crime Early Warning System – HunchLab

Web-based, multi-jurisdictional HunchLab-based application that alerts Pierce County police officers to emerging crime trends in real-time and enables the officers to visualize crime patterns - all in their existing mobile environment.

Elections, Political Analyses, Advocacy

Map of election-day incidents that occurred in Philadelphia during the April 2008 primaries.

Committee of Seventy – Election Day Incident Mapping

Web-based mapping system used by the Committee of Seventy’s Election Oversight Program on Election Day to track election incidents and coordinate responses with volunteers in the field.
http://www.Azavea.com/Clients/ElectionIncidentTrackingandMapping.aspx

Redistricting The Nation - Gerrymandering White Paper Analysis and Interactive, Public Engagement Website

Using the global database underlying its Cicero Web API, Azavea developed a Gerrymandering Index (GI) based on a series of compactness metrics for assessing the degree to which thousands of local, state and federal districts might be gerrymandered. The results were compiled in a white paper and interactive web site, RedistrictingTheNation.com.

http://www.redistrictingthenation.com

http://cdn.azavea.com/com.redistrictingthenation/pdfs/Redistricting_Philadelphia_White_Paper_2010_1.pdf

Percentage of funds raised from out-of-District for U.S. House members.

MAPLight.org – Remote Control Report

As part of its ‘Remote Control’ report, MAPLight.org used maps produced by Azavea to clearly convey the finding that U.S. House members raised the vast majority of campaign contributions from outside their voters’ districts.
http://www.maplight.info/remotecontrol08/RemoteControl08Report.pdf

Cultural and Educational Resources, Collection Management, the Arts

Historical photos of Philadelphia that used to be literally inaccessible to the public can now be viewed in Google Earth.

Philadelphia Department of Records – PhillyHistory.org

Awards:
- Philadelphia Magazine - 2007 "Best of Philly" Award
- Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) – 2007 Exemplary System in Government/ Distinguished Single Process System Award
- The Architect Institute of Architects (AIA) - 2008 Henry Magaziner, EFAIA

Web-based database and archive management tool that provides wide access to the estimated 2 million photographs of Philadelphia held at the Philadelphia City Archives, searchable by location, address, year, or keyword.
http://www.phillyhistory.org/PhotoArchive/

Muralfarm.org enables MAP to share information on and manage data about Philadelphia’s murals with a larger community than would otherwise be possible.

Philadelphia Mural Arts Program – Muralfarm.org

Web-based database and management tool of Philadelphia’s collection of murals that enables users to find information and view murals based on location, keyword, theme, time period or artist.
http://www.muralfarm.org/Muralfarm/Home.aspx

View of AfricaMap's 1959 Ethnographic Map Layer, including airfields.

Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis – AfricaMap

Web-based search tool for exploration of a historically significant collection of maps of Africa as part of the Harvard Map Collection, including spatial datasets from other Harvard departments.
http://cga-3.hmdc.harvard.edu/africamap/

The Wilma Theater’s best potential subscriber areas and existing high subscriber zones.

The Wilma Theater – Marketing Gap Analysis Mapping

Use of geography to better understand the Wilma’s patron base and plan future marketing campaigns to increase patronage of the theater.
http://www.Azavea.com/clients/marketinggapanalysismapping.aspx

Natural Resource Planning

Policy-makers and conservation practitioners can use SmartConservation to make educated decisions about how to prioritize between conservation projects, thereby focusing conservation dollars for the maximum impact.

Natural Lands Trusts – SmartConservation

Web-based tool that automates the application of a complex geospatial model for the prioritization of land preservation.
http://www.smartconservation.org/scmAdminUserLogin.asp

Models and maps were used by the Greenspace Alliance to create a regional open space priorities report that has since shaped open space acquisition and land planning in the Southeastern Pennsylvania region.

Greenspace Alliance – Open Space Priorities Report

Azavea created a series of maps showing high priority areas for open space conservation.
http://www.Azavea.com/clients/openspaceprioritiesreport.aspx