SoLoMo: CityMaps Nabs $2.5M To Render Your City Social, One Block At A Time

Maps have been around for millenia, but for a significant chunk of that time, they remained static, two-dimensional forms, rendered by hand on paper. It sounds crude now, even as services like Wave have us mapping our worlds with our smartphones like explorers of old. Today, with the ridiculous amount of data available on the Web and in the cloud, maps have become something else entirely, our surroundings coming alive in wizbang, interactive 3-D displays. Throw in the level of granularity online maps are capable of, even on mobile, and your once-enthralling lists have become boring -- bordering on analog. Google Maps is a feat in and of itself, but, again, with the wealth of data now available online about local businesses, their hours of operation, menus, websites, deals, and the ability to interconnect all of them based on location, I've been waiting for a smart, visual aggregated service like CityMaps.

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