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Two MapBusinessOnline Pro Features You Might Need Someday

MapBusinessOnline Business Mapping Software is used to solve a myriad of challenges.  Below are two specific problems that come up every once in a while. ZIP Code-to-ZIP Code Driving Time and Distance Queries Every so often a business contacts us … Continue reading

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How to Create a ZIP Code Heat Map

Up here in New England, it’s getting hot outside. What better time than during a heatwave to discuss heat mapping? After all, heat maps are excellent. Heat maps describe business or human activity by color-shading data values over specific locations … Continue reading

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10 Tips for New Users of MapBusinessOnline.com

Sometimes we get simple MapBusinessOnline questions on Chat that deserve quick answers, and perhaps some longer-term users may wonder about these same basic processes too. So, here’s a list of simple MapBusinessOnline processes you might wonder about. After all, we … Continue reading

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Political Mapping – T’is the Season but Proceed with Caution

  What defines America? I think this is a question many of us have been asking ourselves over the last ten days. Who are the folks that make up our nation? It’s a wide range of groups. On a very … Continue reading

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Maintain Situational Awareness During the COVID Reopening

Some business owners and managers have come to understand the value of business mapping software. Perhaps you are one. You may already subscribe to MapBusinessOnline.com or one of our top five competitors. Or you may be an ex-Microsoft MapPoint user … Continue reading

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How Do I Build a COVID-19 Map That Supports My Org?

Many home care and nursing home businesses use business mapping software in their operational environments to better understand the challenges they face. Location awareness has become a primary concern for medical organizations as they do battle with COVID-19 and do … Continue reading

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5 Steps to Create a COVID-19 Pandemic Map by City Limit (Updated for 4/29/20 Data)

By now many of you have looked at the various COVID-19 pandemic maps we’ve published by both County and by State. That data is pretty easy to find and grab. We’ve used the data released on weekdays by USAFacts.org. We … Continue reading

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How Do I Apply Mass Edits to Imported Location Data in MapBusinessOnline?

Once you have imported your location-based or address data into MapBusinessOnline you may decide you want to update that data. Updating data semi-automatically can be done using MapBusinessOnline but you must plan ahead to accomplish this. Remember to download the … Continue reading

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How Do I Record a COVID-19 Time-lapse Map Using MapBusinessOnline

For the second week in a row, I’ve interrupted the usual blog schedule to talk about mapping the Novel Coronavirus. Tracking the spread of a virus is certainly an interesting use of business mapping software. It can also be quite … Continue reading

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Five Steps to Mapping the Covid-19 Contagion

We interrupt our regularly scheduled blog to bring you this special blog presentation.  I had another blog drafted, but I felt this one was more appropriate for our shared historical moment.  Some of our clients may want to build maps … Continue reading

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