Palimap

The map your city never had.

Parcels, zoning, wards, floods, sidewalks, traffic — one living, public map, built fixed-fee for cities that have never had GIS. Then make it your own.

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For cities

The best geographic data your town has ever had — for one flat fee.

  • 120+ synchronized map layers, for unlimited city staff and residents.
  • 2Ask the map plain-English questions — “how many children live within a 10-minute walk of a park?”
  • 3Collect and route residents' public-works requests — potholes, downed trees, abandoned cars.
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For everyone

Make your own view of any city, and share the future you see.

  • 1Combine any city's layers into your own view — with your own data layered in.
  • 2Draw, edit, and design new places and paths.
  • 3Save and share unlimited views of your ideas — each a link anyone can open.
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Most small American cities have no GIS at all. Zoning is a PDF, the ward map is a photocopy, and the answer to “who owns that lot?” lives in a courthouse filing cabinet. Palimap builds the whole picture — as one living, public map. And underneath it, where the records survive, the historic town shows through: the name is palimpsest + map, a surface written on repeatedly where the earlier writing still shows.

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Simple pricing

Cities pay a flat monthly subscription by population (no setup fee); everyone else is $10/month for Palimap Individual. Reading any live map is always free. See pricing →

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