NORWICH, Vt. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — April 19, 2010 — Maponics ( www.maponics.com), provider of location-based data, announced today that its latest release of the Neighborhood Boundaries ^TM product line will expand coverage to include some top metro areas in South America, Middle East, Africa and Asia. The product release adds new neighborhood boundaries across all geographies, bringing the worldwide total to over 105,000 in 42 countries. In addition to wider geographical coverage, Maponics continues to provide deeper coverage for core US and Canadian markets, with new neighborhoods in 100 cities.

“Maponics commitment to quality and their continued expansion of the neighborhood boundary database allows us to provide our site visitors with a comprehensive real estate search experience,” said Alex Lange, CTO of Roost ^TM. “It is clear that our customers want the option to view information at the neighborhood level and with the scope and quality of the data we license from Maponics, we can deliver on that.”

“We continue to hear from our customers that international neighborhood coverage is vital to their plans to add cultural and location context to everything from local search to social networking,” said Darrin Clement, CEO of Maponics. “This release shows how our aggressive expansion plan continues to represent significant value to existing and new customers—allowing them to make better decisions and offer more relevant Web and mobile-based services.”

Maponics Neighborhood Boundaries ^TM is available to license in numerous GIS data formats and through its Spatial API for mashups or other online access. For more information, visit www.maponics.com or call (800) 762-5158.

About Roost

Founded in San Francisco in 2007, Roost is the premier real estate search engine. To support its mission of making it simple for home buyers to find the house of their dreams, Roost is dedicated to providing the most comprehensive, accurate real estate resource on the Web. By partnering with local Multiple Listing Services (MLS), real estate brokers, builders, and via a strategic relationship with iHomefinder, Inc (an industry leader in real estate data services and MLS compliance), Roost helps ensure home buyers access to current homes for sale and foreclosure information in more than 40 major metro areas across the US. For example, some of the top homes for sale and foreclosure searches at Roost include Boston Homes for Sale, Denver Homes for Sale, Orlando Foreclosures, Philadelphia Homes for Sale, Phoenix Foreclosures, San Francisco Homes for Sale and Washington D.C. Foreclosures.

About Maponics

Maponics specializes in location-based data and information for businesses, including neighborhood, carrier route and ZIP Code boundary data. Local search, real estate, mobile, social media and marketing firms rely on Maponics to power ultra-local interactive search, mapping, and ad targeting platforms, including Google®, Twitter®, Trulia®, Citysearch®, Yellow Book USA®, infoUSA® , D&B, Dominion Enterprises® (eNeighborhoods®, Homes.com® and ForRent.com®), AccuData®, Zvents®, HelloMetro, CitySquares®, Loopt®, Monster.com®, Zillow®, Lowe’s® and many others. The Maponics Online Store, powered by Maponics data, is the only place USPS.com refers to for postal maps. The company is located in Norwich, Vermont. Additional information can be found at www.maponics.com.

Maponics and/or other noted Maponics related products contained herein are registered trademarks or trademarks of Maponics, LLC. All other registered and unregistered trademarks herein are the sole property of their respective owners. (C) 2010 Maponics, LLC. All rights reserved.

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