For a full list of clients and projects, please visit: http://www.azavea.com/clients
Azavea is an award-winning geospatial analysis (GIS) software development firm specializing in the creation of location-based web and mobile solutions, as well as geospatial analysis services to enhance decision-making. Azavea is committed to working on projects with a strong social value component in order to promote the emergence of more dynamic, vibrant, and sustainable communities.
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.
Economic Development
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/
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
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/
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
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/
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/unified-land-records-system
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
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
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
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/election-day-incident-mapping
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
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
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
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
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://africamap.harvard.edu/
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/wilma-theater-marketing-gap-analysis
Natural Resource Planning
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
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/open-space-priorities-report