Azavea Inc.

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May 9th, 2013 - Azavea Announces Winners for its ‘Summer of Maps’

April 11th, 2013 - International Space Apps Challenge Selects Philadelphia as the Global MainStage; Azavea is Local Organizer

April 2nd, 2013 - Azavea Awarded SBIR Grant to Develop Web-Based Historical Geocoder

January 15th, 2013 - New Open Data Application Gives Access to Licensing and Permitting Data From the City of Philadelphia

December 20th, 2012 - CartoDB and Azavea Announce Partnership Agreement

September 27th, 2012 - Azavea Releases Mobile Version of OpenTreeMap Source Code to Support Public Access to Urban Forestry Projects via Mobile and Tablet Devices

September 5th, 2012 - Azavea and Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Announce Hacks for Democracy, a Hackathon for Elections and Politics

July 31st, 2012 - Azavea and Temple University’s Center for Security and Crime Science Announce the Release of ACS Alchemist, an Open Source Software Tool to Access Census Data

June 19th, 2012 - Azavea and The Omega Group Announce a Partnership to Bring a New Generation of Predictive Analytics to the Web, Mobile and the Desktop Products

May 3rd, 2012 - Azavea Announces the Release of GeoTrellis, an Open Source High Performance Geographic Data Processing Engine and Programming Toolkit

April 13th, 2012 - University of Richmond and Azavea Launch “Visualizing Emancipation” Web Application Prototype That Maps Emancipation Events during the Civil War

March 21st, 2012 - Azavea Releases REST Version of Cicero API - Accurately Match Addresses to the Latest Legislative Districts and Elected Official Data

February 8th, 2012 - Public is Invited to Use Web, iPhone and Android Apps as Part of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Geo Inventory Challenge

December 21st, 2011 - New Free iPhone App Directs Users to the Nearest Medical Centers Worldwide

November 18th, 2011 - API Service Provides Post-redistricting Legislative District Boundaries to Accurately Match Addresses to the Latest Boundary Data

October 7th, 2011 - OpenDataPhilly.org Wants Your Vote for the Most Important Data for the City of Philadelphia to Release

October 4th, 2011 - Azavea Gets USDA Grants to Develop Urban Forestry Inventory

September 7th, 2011 - Winners Announced for First Public Redistricting Contest Held in Philadelphia

September 1st, 2011 - Philadelphia Department of Records’ PhillyHistory.org Wins 2011 Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History Leadership in History Awards

August 5th, 2011 - First Web-based Redistricting Contest Launched in Philadelphia for the Public to Create City Council District Plans

July 21st, 2011 - Azavea Releases Source Code for PhillyTreeMap to Provide Municipalities and Citizen Groups With Collaborative Urban Forestry Inventory Tools

July 1st, 2011 - Azavea Releases Source Code for OpenDataPhilly.org

May 17th, 2011 - Philadelphia Department of Records and Azavea Release White Paper on Augmented Reality

April 29th, 2011 - Azavea launches PhillyTreeMap.org, a geographic web application to enable the public to collaboratively map and inventory Philadelphia’s urban forest

April 26th, 2011 - Azavea Launches OpenDataPhilly, a First-of-a-Kind Philadelphia-Centric Catalog of Online Data, Applications and APIs

April 21st, 2011 - Azavea Partners with TechSoup Global to Offer Free Elected Official Data and District Matching Through Cicero API

April 20th, 2011 - Azavea Launches OpenDataPhilly, a Philadelphia-centric Open Data Catalog

February 4th, 2011 - Azavea, George Mason University and Harvard University Present District Builder, an Open Source Web-based Redistricting Application

December 6th, 2010 - Azavea Awarded National Science Foundation SBIR Phase IIB Grant for HunchLab™ to Support Geographic Forecasting of Crime Events

December 2nd, 2010 - Azavea Awarded National Science Foundation SBIR Phase IIB Grant for HunchLab™ to Support Geographic

October 15th, 2010 - Azavea Receives SBIR Award from U.S. Department of Agriculture

September 9th, 2010 - Azavea Recognized on the 2010 Inc. Magazine’s 500|5000 List for the Second Year in a Row

September 2nd, 2010 - Azavea and the Sustainable Business Network of Philadelphia Launch CommonSpace Web Application

August 11th, 2010 - Elected Official Data and District Matching for the United Kingdom Now Available through Azavea’s Cicero™ API

June 23rd, 2010 - Azavea Recognized as National Finalist in 2010 Top Small Company Workplaces List by Inc. Magazine and Winning Workplaces

June 10th, 2010 - Azavea (Formerly Avencia) Awarded NSF SBIR Grant to Explore Use of GPUs for Faster Geographic Data Processing

May 12th, 2010 - Azavea Ranks 28th on 2010 Inner City 100 List of 100 Fastest-Growing Inner City Companies Nationwide

April 14th, 2010 - Photos from the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Centennial Exhibition and Historical Images of Philadelphia Collections Made Available on PhillyHistory.org for the First Time

March 15th, 2010 - Free Subscription Plan Released for the Cicero Legislative District Matching and Elected Official Lookup API

January 28th, 2010 - Common Cause PA Selects Cicero Legislative Data API for Our Philadelphia Election and Campaign Online Database

January 21st, 2010 - Avencia Adds Support for OpenStreetMap to its DecisionTree Software

October 22nd, 2009 - Avencia Launches Redistricting the Nation.com, a Public Engagement Web Application to Measure Compactness and Gerrymandering of U.S. Election

October 7th, 2009 - Avencia Launches Walkshed.org to Calculate and Map Walkability Based on Individual Preferences

August 24th, 2009 - Avencia Recognized on the Inc. Magazine 2009 List of Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America and Ranks 52 in Greater Philadelphia Region

July 31st, 2009 - Philadelphia Releases Deed And Mortgage Analysis And Mapping Software, LandStat, Using Avencia’s Kaleidocade Software

May 27th, 2009 - Philadelphia-based Avencia Ranks 13th on 2009 Inner City 100 List of 100 Fastest-Growing Inner City Companies Nationwide

May 18th, 2009 - In Light of Upcoming Local Elections, Avencia Releases Free Web-based Tool to Search, Investigate and Map Philly’s Election Results Through Time

May 6th, 2009 - Avencia Releases New Version of CiceroLive, the Free Sample of Cicero, Avencia’s District Matching and Legislative Data API

January 7th, 2009 - Mural Arts Program Chooses SAJARA®, An Online Geographic Digital Asset Management Software For Its muralfarm.org, Database Of Philadelphia’s Murals

December 19th, 2008 - City of Asheville, NC, Chooses DecisionTree®, Avencia’s Planning and Prioritization Software Platform and Wins 2008 IEDC’s “Excellence in Economic Development” Award

November 6th, 2008 - Avencia Creates Maps and Performs Geographic Analysis for MAPLight.org Report Showing House Members Raise 79% of Funds from Outside their Voters’ Districts

September 18th, 2008 - Philadelphia-based GIS Company Avencia Recently Hires Three New Employees

May 8th, 2008 - New Release of Sajara® Geographic Digital Asset Management Software Now Supports Scanned Maps

April 15th, 2008 - Avencia Awarded National Science Foundation SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Phase II Grant for HunchLab

January 4th, 2008 - Avencia Incorporated and Committee of Seventy Partner to Apply Geospatial Technology to Map and Analyze Election Incidents in Real-Time

December 17th, 2007 - Avencia Announces a New Edition of its Sajara® Web-based Geographic Digital Asset Management Software

November 28th, 2007 - PhillyHistory.org offers PhillyHistory Mobile

November 5th, 2007 - Upcoming Elections: Phila-Based GIS Company Brings Democracy to Citizens

April 18th, 2007 - Philadelphia-Based Avencia Wins Prestigious ESRI Foundation Partner Award

February 28th, 2007 - PhillyHistory.org Provides Online Geographic Search Capabilities for Historic Photos

June 1st, 2005 - Avencia Releases neighborhoodBase

April 19th, 2005 - NEW WEBSITE LETS PHILADELPHIANS MAP CITY SERVICES, SEE ZONING, AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY

September 27th, 2004 - Avencia Releases Web-Based Real Estate Decision Making Tool for Philadelphia Market