Why Pushpin?

If you have a web application that needs maps – or there's one in your future – maybe you've looked long and hard at the high-profile consumer map providers. They’re truly great if you want to put a handful of pins on a map, to look at aerials and – well, really not much more.

What if you want hundreds or thousands of pins?
Or to shade zip codes according to demographics like net income?
What if you need special layers, like parcel boundaries?

OK…with a cadre of top developers having nothing else to do, some false starts, and not a small amount of specialized learning, you might be able to pull a rabbit out of a hat. But why take the time and the risk when there’s Pushpin?

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Pushpin really does more.

Pushpin is easy to use – for both developers and end users.

Pushpin hosts large numbers of specialized map layers – yours and ours. With other approaches you have the headache of hosting everything but the base map – and on top of that, the performance suffers. Pushpin custom map layers

Pushpin will display thousands of markers instead of dozens. Other approaches bog down the user's browser for more than a few dozen markers, which may demand compromises from your application. Pushpin has no such limits, so go to town.

Pushpin can render shaded thematic maps on demand for thousands of data variables – so fast you'll wonder how it's done. You want to see net income by block group? Sales by territory? No problem. Pushpin will shade your map with colors indexed to ranges of values. And your users will appreciate the way it looks. Clear as a bell, with streets where they should be: on top where you can see them.

New! For a real first, Pushpin now gives you – via API – access to best-of-breed mappable data from name-brand suppliers including Claritas, ESRI, and Navteq.

Population facts
Housing facts
Income data
Parcels
Five-year forecasts
Market potentials

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Pushpin is very developer-friendly.

Pushpin handles the major map headaches.

Native handling of complex multi-layer maps
Built-in support for thousands of point markers
Pre-built applications user interface “widgets”
Many other labor-saving API calls

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And the user experience is second to none.

It's got the same fluid, draggable, cartographically pleasing map experience as a consumer site – even with complex maps that would choke a consumer map server.
Easy to use powerful and fluid map experience

Easy to use powerful and fluid map experience

And that’s really just the beginning. Poke around the site and you’ll see what we mean. You might pull a rabbit out of a hat, but why even try when there’s Pushpin?

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