Multi-disciplinary mapping & reporting for students, faculty, researchers, and administration.
Help students across disciplines understand geographic data without having to take a specialized class.
Use PolicyMap to bring sophisticated data, mapping and analytics to fields beyond traditional GIS and planning departments. From public health to sociology and law, students can use PolicyMap to create maps, reports and analyses to enable a deeper understanding of crucial areas in their fields.
Watch University of Delaware Professor Victor Perez demonstrate how to examine environmental justice issues using PolicyMap.
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Get instant access to the web’s largest place-based data library
Explore maps and create custom reports of data related to demographics, real estate, health, jobs, the environment, education and more. Available data is continuously updated.
Focus on interpreting data in the classroom
Enable students to immediately bring a discussion of data into their work, without having to spend time learning a GIS tool.
Gain simple, secure access through your university library
Colleges and universities can purchase enterprise licenses for their libraries and make access to PolicyMap available to all users via IP authentication or Single Sign On (SSO). No login required; library users may create their own individual accounts for storage of PolicyMap work products.
If your university uses a Single Sign On (SSO) tool to access its applications, PolicyMap can readily integrate with it. We have implemented SSO for many clients, using a variety of their SSO tools, such as OpenAthens, ADSF, Okta, and native SAML 2.0. We are happy to provide an implementation that will seamlessly integrate into the SSO system you use to manage your applications. Contact us for additional information.
“University Libraries sought to provide faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students with a simple spatial analysis tool. PolicyMap was a practical choice to give our academic community access to demographic, health and economic variables. Student research utilizing this geographic tool will inform their subject knowledge as well as enhance their digital literacy and critical analysis skills.”
Relevant data across disciplines
See webinars, sample curricula and maps to understand how professors are using PolicyMap in their coursework, from Urban Planning, Environmental Justice, Social Sciences, and Communication to Public Health.
A benefit corporation born at Reinvestment Fund, a catalyst for change in low-income communities, our background in public policy and community development underlies our mission and guides our products. To that end, we aggregate authoritative data from hundreds of public and proprietary sources and make it all accessible in a single place, one multi-disciplinary tool.
University of Delaware Professor Victor Perez shares his work developing a course/curriculum using PolicyMap.
Our sources
All sources are authoritative public sources or proprietary vendors.
Features
Make maps. Fast.
Visualize the latest demographics from Census as well as unique third-party data.
Upload your own address-level data.
Use our unlimited self-service data loader to overlay your data on top of PolicyMap's.
Download data.
Download our data for use in your own research, mapping and presentation tools.
Easily create market reports.
Run reports for predefined areas like counties and school districts, or create a custom area.
Find areas that meet up-to-three criteria.
Use our unique 3-Layer Maps tool for site selection, to find hot spots or target specific areas.
College & University Solution
Contact us and request a 30-day trial
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Other Resources
Webinar: Using PolicyMap in the Classroom: University of Pennsylvania
Webinar: Using PolicyMap in the Classroom: UC Berkeley and Thomas Jefferson University
Brochure: PolicyMap for Colleges & Universities
PolicyMap Recommended by Choice Magazine
Choice Magazine, August 2013
PolicyMap Reference E-Review
Library Journal, May 2015
Review of PolicyMap Database
ANSS Currents, Fall 2015