# Mapzania Reviews
**Vendor:** Mapzania  
**Category:** [GIS Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/gis)  
**Total Reviews:** 2
## About Mapzania
Mapzania is a powerful, flexible and simple to implement geospatial software library that allows Microsoft .Net application developers to take advantage of the growing market for location-based software and data solutions.




## Mapzania Reviews
  ### 1. Amazed with the capabilities of the product

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Philip N. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2018

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

The ease of implementation and to spatially enable any of our existing web applications with minimal effort. Another good aspect is the ability to produce good looking maps in a short amount of time.

**What do you dislike about Mapzania?**

Would love more implementation examples on the website to showcase the more advanced capabilities of the product.

**Recommendations to others considering Mapzania:**

This product is a must-try if you have any .NET web application that needs to be map-enabled in a short amount of time. This provides a very cost-effective, well supported, powerful solution compared to more established brands and takes away most of the heavy lifting from the developer making it very non-GIS developer friendly.

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

We are empowering our end-users to become spatially enabled(aware) without them having formal GIS training.

  ### 2. Drop in mapping framework for your application

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2018

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

Mapzania makes it extremely easy to create an application to display complex maps.  The "Getting started guide" can take you from 0 to maps in less than an hour.  The "drop and go" feature for adding geospatial data is excellent,  you can just drop a new shape file/kml/etc in your solution and it can be displayed on your map at the next run.

*  The built-in visual map styler is very intuitive and allows you to compose maps in the browser. 
*  The documentation is excellent.
*  The MZ JavaScript library provides great features to work with geospatial data in the browser and hosts a powerful query engine to filter and aggregate data.
*  Ease of use.  Install a NuGet package, add the map component to your website, add some data and run.
*  Very few dependencies on other javascript components
*  Easily configured maps and layers.
*  Integration with most common geospatial formats

**What do you dislike about Mapzania?**

Some of the more complex configuration options available are not documented.  Since the configuration files are very easy to understand and customize, this is not a huge problem.  The Mapzania team is also very responsive with queries on how to solve more complex requirements using their product.

**Recommendations to others considering Mapzania:**

I would definitely consider Mapzania when starting a new geospatial solution.
The ease of use, query engine, and supported formats makes building a smart map application easy.


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

Displaying complex maps in the browser which allow users to filter and aggregate geospatial data to get a better overall understanding of their data.


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

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

**Analysis**
- Spatial Analysis
- Reporting 
- Real-Time Streaming 

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