We had a request for a map of VC investments in Boston from the Rob Finn data we posted up and could not pass up the opportunity to make more heat maps.

Some interesting patterns going on in Boston with a good chunk of activity happening in the central business district and Route 128 , which has been the classic case study of regional economic advantage ( see: Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 by AnnaLee Saxenian ). The start ups are not stopping at 128 and you can see the dispersed activity in Framingham, Westborough, and even out to Lowell.

Always happy to fill requests, but we are burning the midnight oil to get this out of beta so you can fill your own requests. We’ve been getting some great feedback and have a cool new user interface being built out that will make it super simple to make your own map with a new world of geospatial data (at least new outside the stuffy confines of GIS). Also a kick ass new architecture to make the sometimes byzantine world of geospatial data as easy as local search.

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