Hi Everyone, usboundary.com is a new and "green" (free, no ad, no signup) site It focus on area (like county, city, zip code, etc.) boundary, data, data presentation, and relative tools. It is my first web site. Just have no idea how good/bad it is; so I'd like to hear your thoughts on it - from any aspect, is welcomed and will be appreciated! Thanks you!
Looks really good - I don't know how much competition there is for those stats but I can see it being handy. I'm not a fan of spaces in hyperlinks - they don't paste well into emails etc. Maybe replace with hyphens or underscores? I had a play with the distance between two places and that was pretty cool. I decided to see how far it was from Chicago to Las Vegas (a la Bridesmaids movie) and discovered there are two Las Vegas'. That must get old really quickly for the people in the New Mexico town!
Thank you so much, Sarahk! You had provided the very first online feedback to usboundary.com! I'd save it and print it out. There have many competitors, including zip-codes.com, city-data.com, and google fusion tables. A niche of usboundary.com is that it optimized boundary data (originally in huge size) by dramatically reducing its size while keeping its accuracy. That makes it possible to show more than 5000 areas on the map at a time. The next steps are to extend data sets, and make more (or better) tools to the public. There have lots of fun to compete with those big sites I do not like the space neither (thank for pointing it out!). Even it won't cause problem, the encoded link is not reading friendly - http://www.usboundary.com/Resources/United%20States%20Maps%20Download vs. http://www.usboundary.com/Resources/United_States_Maps_Download, the latter should be the winner. I think I'd firstly make update to those static links, and then the dynamic links (in millions, I think. need to make sure they won't break). There have more than 4 Chicago, and 4 Las Vegas Some are cities, and some are county subdivisions, or townships. That is confusing and certainly an usability issue. Need to take more times on it; probably adjusting weighting on certain search fields (for instance, higher weighting on city over other area types) may somehow release the issue. Thanks!