I'm Zack, co-founder and head of product at Iggy. Our mission is to make information about the world accessible. We've taken our first steps toward this over the last few months and you can now query a wide range of geographic datasets (>175!) using the Iggy API. From flood, fault and wildfire risk to parks, rest stops, fire stations and even voting patterns, commute trends and community demographics; we’ve built a massive database (https://data.askiggy.com/) so that your apps can harness better data. My co-founder Lindsay and I started Iggy bc we were frustrated with the number of missed opportunities we saw around geographic data at Airbnb. Even the best teams have a hard time integrating this data; the current solutions require way too much expertise and are quite developer-unfriendly. First, you need to find a source for that data, evaluate it alongside others, transform it into a useful format, and join it with your data. All of this is uniquely hard with geographic data, mostly because that data often comes in a form that is not usable without special software! Once you can open it, you have to explore the dataset, describe it, and understand the possible ranges of values. You have to find documentation — if it even exists — that explains how the data is structured. For some datasets, you need to maintain a pipeline to deal with updates. You have to monitor it and fix things when the data source inevitably changes. All of these things take a ton of time and resources and distract developers from their core jobs. We designed our API to take the pain out of location data. You don't need any special software, python packages, or domain-specific knowledge to get geographic data and location context into whatever you're building. We abstracted away all of the data cleaning, joins, transformations, and update pipelines so all you have to do is write a simple API query to get the data you want, and then use it however you like. Thanks for checking us out, ask us all the questions you have, we love to chat about all things location and data.

Thanks for hunting us @widawskij! We're pumped to share Iggy w you all!

Go Iggy go!

Excited to see the Iggy team launch their product and make it self-serve for developers. I'm thrilled to see that access to complex location data is finally available to anyone who can make an API call. Go team! 🎉

love it!

Looks very impressive! How accurate is your app? Is it possible to define if a user has entered a residential building or an office? How often do you update your databases?

Great!

So exciting to see this launch! Very proud investor:)

Congrats on the launch! Excited to see what people will build with access to so much data thru the APIs.

Awesome product! Plenty of use cases in mind for this one...

Been so excited about this launch. So excited to AskIggy!!

?makers How does map panning affect requests? Is there a suggested way for being more frugal with requests to handle this exploratory use case? Also, it would be awesome if you had a filter for your premium datasets so it's easier to see what that price tier entails :-)

what do you want to askiggy?

Amazing @lindsay_pettingill ! Congrats! 🚀 :)

Congratulations @zachary_walker and @lindsay_pettingill !! So needed in the world!

Wow!,I was looking for something similar, got it!

Congrats on the launch Iggy team!

So excited to see what the team has accomplished. Great work and congrats @lindsay_pettingill and @zack_walker on the self-serve launch and on ProductHunt. I've been following it for a long time!

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Tried out of curiosity!