Technology map of Montréal

By Heri Nov 28th 2007 in Business, entrepreneurship

I made a while ago a map of Montréal (version 1 – version 2) which provided some insight on what was going in Montréal in technology. Many were interested, but it’s true that these were more entertaining than useful.

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With Austin Hill and other technology entrepreneurs in Montréal, we are currently trying to geographically map people, companies, startups, web projects, and I am now inviting you to fill out the form.

As written in the page, the map will then be publicly avalaible. We will probably make a spreadsheet document as well.

Thank you!

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daniel November 28, 2007

Very cool Heri. I’ve been meaning to do the exact same thing for awhile (I was interested in finding the Mtl Tech Startup scene’s center of mass). Oh well, guess I’ll have to find some other excuse to play with the gmap api :-)

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Sylvain Carle November 28, 2007

The map is already available, n’est-ce pas?

Nice work, custom/community maps is one area where lots of innovation will happen, glad to see you are already experimenting with it!

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Heri November 29, 2007

sylvain carle, well no it’s not avalaible, we are working on it.

i wonder how you got that. google maps search?

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Sylvain Carle November 29, 2007

Yes, it’s a new feature of Google Maps, when you search it also gives you the “community” maps after the standard results. If you search for a business name with few entries in it (like Praized par exemple) you can find map that uses it, if the author has not checked the “privacy” option to be “unlisted”.

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Sylvain Carle November 29, 2007

Also, you should keep the option open to import a batch of locations from a microformatted xhtml source or a KML file, might come handy one day…

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Heri November 29, 2007

thanks, (although I am not sure if keeping a kml source file is scalable if we hit more than 100+ companies)

by the way, it just unlisted the map, mainly because it’s still in draft version and also because there are a couple of errors on it.

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Robin November 30, 2007

I’d certainly like to help. I even have some code (php, still counts) laying around that does most of this that was used to map about 200 free software / open source companies (where the link to free software was very loosely defined).

microformats (hcard), georss, kml, geourl, geocoder.ca… and I recently found a heatmap service that could come really handy to show $$ or number of employees density, for example.

Great work yet again, keep it up :)

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Stephane Daury November 30, 2007

On a very loosely related note, Heri, I noticed that the Google Webmaster Tools now allow you to specify a geo-target for your site(s). I guess MTW would be a prime candidate for that.

See GWT -> Tools -> Set geographic target

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