Featured Map: TARC Transit Bus System

Have you ever wanted to take the TARC, but had trouble navigating the myriad images and PDFs of all the routes on their site? Here is an interactive map that shows a satellite road map with a toggleable TARC route overlay on top! Zoom and pan instantly to your heart's content to see how to get around Louisville.

Consuming Louisville: One Thing I Love About Louisville

Michelle at the local blog Consuming Louisville recently asked me to be part of her "One Thing I Love About Louisville" series. I happily obliged and came up with an answer for her blog post.

Here's what she said about the article:

In this essay Michael Schnuerle of Metro Mapper not only shares some of his love of Louisville but also some really interesting Louisville geography information. I'm smarter about our city for having read his essay (do you know how Poplar Level got it's name?).

With multiple posts per day on lots of interesting local interest topics and conversation starters, Consuming Louisville is a real treat for the city. Here's what the site is about.

Consuming Louisville is your guide to great restaurants, shops, events and happenings in Louisville. We strive to try, support, publicize and give time and money to people and businesses doing interesting and cool things in Louisville.

Thanks a lot for the opportunity, Michelle.

Name Dropping in The Ville Voice

Louisville based The Ville Voice mentioned Metro Mapper in a recent blog post.

We’re also mighty impressed with the work of Michael Schnuerle, the founder and CEO of Metro Mapper. The site allows users to create maps that show locations of crime, sex offenders, real estate for sale, restaurants and historic sites. Lots and lots of data. Check it out.

Thevillevoice.com is a local blog that dishes out local commentary about the goings on in and around Louisville:

This site isn’t just about the big news that makes our city tick, but also the stories behind the stories. We’ll examine the way our local media operates, and dish out a mix of compliments and complaints about personalities and politics of Metro Louisville.

Thanks for the props, Jake and Rick!

Update: Your Searches are Now Remembered

By popular request, your last search on any map is now brought up automatically when you switch maps, or when you come back to the site later! So if you always search around your home, the site will remember that for you.

In addition, the search is done instantly for you when you visit a map. The default settings are used, which you can change and re-search. If it's your first time to the site, the search is centered around Louisville, Kentucky.

Thanks for the suggestions and keep them coming! We are also working on letting users with free accounts store multiple addresses, which can be accessed from any computer.

Crime Updated for December

We've updated the crime map to include the newest report data for Metro Louisville and Jefferson County, through December 12, 2007. Use the Date Range filter on the left of the map to see what's newly occurred around your home or office.

For each crime, click the "Details" button in the popup to see more details about the case, including a description of what happened.

We've also updated our Crime Mapplet, so those of you that use it will see the new crimes automatically.

Note: This will probably be the last time we post in the blog about a crime update. Just expect to see them monthly. If you want to follow our data updates as they happen, and for other minor notices and info, please follow our Twitter stream.

New Feature: Streamlined Local Search

Now at the bottom left of every map there is a new improved local search box. You can type in a term or business name and you will see the closest 10 results directly on the map you are viewing. So if you search for 'security' after doing a crime search, you'd see the nearest companies that can help you out!

Crime Map Updated to November

We've updated the crime map to include the newest report data for Metro Louisville and Jefferson County, through October 29, 2007. Use the Date Range filter on the map to see what's newly occurred around your home or office.

For each crime, click the "Details" button in the popup to see more details about the case, including a description of what happened.

We've also updated our Crime Mapplet, so those of you that use it will see the new crimes automatically.