Public Press Partners With Neighborhood Mapping Vendor Maponics To Improve Citizen Journalism Tools

Public Press, Inc. the company behind the ground-breaking citizen journalism site publicpress.org, announced today the integration of Maponics Neighborhood Boundaries™ to enhance local search and drive more relevant stories to viewers.

Portland, OR (PRWEB) November 10, 2007 -- Public Press, Inc. the company behind the ground-breaking citizen journalism site publicpress.org, announced today the integration of Maponics Neighborhood Boundaries™ to enhance local search and drive more relevant stories to viewers.

"With the great neighborhood map data Maponics offers, our content publishers can now pinpoint the neighborhood they are posting about and readers can find news for a specific local neighborhood," explains Russell Okamoto, co-founder of Public Press. "Geolocation and mapping are really important to local news reporting. By enabling neighborhood-based tagging and search, we are trying to give citizen journalists all the tools they need to reach their neighbors."

"Maponics is very excited to provide Public Press with our high-quality map data," says Director of Mapping & Data Operations, Steve Zuckerman. "The Public Press citizen news network, where anybody can instantly publish information about their neighborhood or community, is a perfect application for our neighborhood boundaries."

About Public Press: The worldwide neighborhood newspaper that anyone can publish or edit. Citizens across the globe can help create tighter-knit communities by contributing to their neighborhood newspaper on http://www.publicpress.org. Public Press is a Portland, OR, company.

About Maponics: America's largest corporations entrust Maponics® with their mapping and data needs -- including 20% of the Fortune 500. Maponics is located in Norwich, Vermont, with customers throughout the U.S. and Canada. More information is available at http://www.maponics.com .

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