# PolicyMap Reviews
**Vendor:** PolicyMap  
**Category:** [GIS Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/gis)  
**Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 4
## About PolicyMap
Over 80% of U.S. businesses report the need to analyze geographic data, but available tools are hard to use and are missing data. PolicyMap is the solution. By bridging the gap between data and action, PolicyMap simplifies the analysis of geographic data. To meet the demand for authoritative, relevant, current location data, PolicyMap offers a mapping application, an analytics platform, and data licensing services. Our tools are used across industries for market intelligence, site selection, impact evaluation, product development, and academic research. PolicyMap allows users to: • Use Maps To Understand Data • Unlock The Web’s Largest Geographic Data Warehouse • Gain Insights In Minutes, No GIS-knowledge needed • Make An Impact With Good Data Access all of the information you need about a place through a single platform or vendor. Our data warehouse boasts +75,000 indicators from +150 authoritative public and proprietary sources. PolicyMap allows you to visualize data including demographics, incomes and spending, housing, lending, quality of life, economy, education, health, federal guidelines, and more.




## PolicyMap Reviews
  ### 1. A little difficult to use.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Duduetsang M. | Account Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2023

**What do you like best about PolicyMap?**

In terms of finding policies that you might be confused about.

**What do you dislike about PolicyMap?**

It is a very difficult app to use. And if you have no experience using it can prove to be a burden.i think the more you use it the more you will learn.

**What problems is PolicyMap solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The confusion when coming to policy understanding.

  ### 2. Software for The Greater Good

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Sweetheart H. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2023

**What do you like best about PolicyMap?**

I love how PolicyMap highlghts a need for change in areas and shows the importance of it. A lot of locations, even close to home, you may not think anything of it until you use PolicyMap and it has you analyze your community differently.

**What do you dislike about PolicyMap?**

The cost of PolicyMap is very high if you are a small buisness looking to use its services. It's great for large organizatins but as a small buisness it's not affordable.

**What problems is PolicyMap solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It's solving social disconnect by showing communities that have a need for change based on analytical data. The data is a key component and helps to understand why and what needs a change.

  ### 3. Really Amazing Platform

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Robert K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2023

**What do you like best about PolicyMap?**

PolicyMap made it super easy to analyze and upload our existing data for review.

**What do you dislike about PolicyMap?**

Customer service was somewhat hard to get in touch with and a lot of the reps had very thick accents.

**What problems is PolicyMap solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Policymap was able to put our data into a visual timeline so we did not have to keep analyzing raw data.

  ### 4. Excellent Resource!

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** SURNIDA A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 04, 2023

**What do you like best about PolicyMap?**

Ease of use and maps are the best features.the data set definitions and links to resources have been helpful as well.

**What do you dislike about PolicyMap?**

wish some of the data sets were more up to date

**What problems is PolicyMap solving and how is that benefiting you?**

policy map reduces the burden of data collection ,strengthening capacity for social impact.



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## PolicyMap Features
**Data Management**
- Data Capture
- Data Storage
- Data Manipulation
- Data Visualization

**Map Creation**
- Geocoding
- Buffer Zone Query
- Overlaying
- Publishing

**Analysis**
- Spatial Analysis
- Reporting 

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