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Neighborhood Boundaries

Zip codes 10012 & 10014 are not neighborhoods. SoHo is.

People live in neighborhoods not zip codes. Everyone knows where their neighborhood or area begins and ends, and it's usually not defined by zip codes. Neighborhoods are people and the way they live, whether it's SoHo in NYC, SOMA in San Francisco or Westwood in Los Angeles. This is the tool that gives you the True Neighborhoods. Neighborhood Boundaries is a tool that gathers all types of data from local experts to find out what a neighborhood is - its character and invisible "boundaries." Neighborhood Boundaries goes a step further than other tools by giving information needed for real estate, rather than a basic local search.
It helps you connect your users with the places that fit them best. Layer our polygons over city maps. Search by neighborhood name. Neighborhood Boundaries "takes it to the streets," deep inside your community.

Perfect solution if you

Want to establish your neighborhood expertise
Want to organize your business directly around specific neighborhoods
Want to drive neighborhood-level SEO
Want a neighborhood tool that fits with other Onboard content
Are creating innovative mapping features
Are adding "my Neighborhood" features to your website
Want to offer search options users can easily understand

Coverage

New coverage added quarterly!
270 major U.S. markets
30,000 U.S. neighborhoods
116 Canadian markets
2,000 Canadian neighborhoods
Downtown metropolitan and population centers
Ability to create your own neighborhood definitions

Neighborhood Boundaries comes in three models:

Neighborhood Boundaries Search
Neighborhood Boundaries Content
Neighborhood Boundaries Mapping

Neighborhood Boundaries SEARCH

Take your site traffic deeper into local communities-right down to the neighborhood level. We've created a suite of resources to make it easy for your team to create powerful neighborhood search on your site. Don't have GIS capabilities? Aren't ready to integrate maps? No problem. Neighborhood Boundaries search gives you all the tools and services you need to neighborhood-enable your listings!

Benefits

Enables search and display of listings - and other content - by neighborhood
Provides a framework for making you - and your agents - neighborhood experts
Integrates fully with Neighborhood Boundaries content and mapping

Customizable Developer's Toolkit

Every website and business has different needs and can benefit from different solutions. Let us help you find the perfect mix of tools and services.

Well organized lookup tables that relate

Neighborhoods to markets
ZIP codes to neighborhoods
ZIP codes to markets

Neighborhood web service - use our easy service to find the neighborhood for any listing on your system in real time.
Neighborhood batch service - send us any file of addresses and we'll return it to you coded to neighborhoods.

Delivery

Lookup tables are delivered as flat files
Web service results are made via a simple XML service call
Batch service results are typically delivered as flat files

Neighborhood Boundaries CONTENT

Why show only city or ZIP level information when true neighborhood content is out there? SoHo is NOT the same as Tribeca or the West Village, even though they share portions of the same ZIP codes. The communities we live in have unseen boundaries-use Onboard's neighborhood content to show that you know what makes a place unique.

Have your own neighborhood definitions?

You're halfway there already! Map your own areas for specific clients. If you have defined sales territories, need additional coverage or just prefer your definitions to ours, let us know. Send us your neighborhoods and we'll return a full suite of custom content, tied to them. Show your local expertise and content that no one will be able to duplicate.

Content options

Neighborhood Boundaries content covers all the data types in the Content Services suite -and comes in the same formats and layouts you may already be working with. Content Services and Neighborhood Boundaries smoothly come together for the strongest, most inclusive content available. Use Neighborhood Boundaries for urban areas where distinct neighborhoods exist and Content Services for the surrounding areas.

Community Profiles - full data sets based on neighborhoods rather than aggregated ZIP codes
Trends and Property Reports - home sales aggregates and housing characteristics for those properties located in the neighborhood
Recent Home Sales - use our XML web service to search by neighborhood, limit results to the same neighborhood as the search address or just see neighborhood affiliation for each property in the search results.
Local Amenities - we provide the neighborhood affiliation for each Spot
School Profiles - each school is associated with a neighborhood, making it easy to determine which schools to display alongside your listings

Delivery

We'll work with your team to find the best approach. Usually files are delivered in flat file format while Recent Home Sales are provided via a web service call.

Neighborhood Boundaries MAPPING

If your team can use them, we can provide polygons - boundary files - for all Neighborhood Boundaries neighborhoods. These polygons can be used to draw the shapes of distinct neighborhoods on a map.

What are Polygons?

Imagine drawing a border on a map that marks off a neighborhood. That shape would be a neighborhood polygon. With Neighborhood Boundaries you can mark off every neighborhood in a marketplace, and your map can link to local listings, recent home sales, nearby schools and businesses for each neighborhood. It would also be able to show where each neighborhood is in relation to others.

Onboard polygons let viewers see the shape of neighborhoods and learn what's in them. They are designed to help you build custom search, content and display solutions that tie in your own content for any type of neighborhood map. Our polygons come with a developer's toolkit including all the resources your team needs to easily understand, import and begin providing easy interfaces for your customers.

Expand those boundaries to the top marketplaces in the U.S. and Canada and you have Neighborhood Boundaries.

Once you have the polygons on your system, custom aggregation, display and search are limited only by your imagination. Need some suggestions? Neighborhood Boundaries Mapping comes with the same industry-leading integration support and expertise you've come to expect from Onboard.

Delivery

OnBoard can ship these files to you in many formats including:

.SHP/.E00 (Arcinfo)
.TAB/.MIF (MapInfo)
.KML (Google Earth)
.DWG, .DGN, and .CSV flat files.
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