Emporis

Business type

Co-creation

Service/product description

Emporis is a real estate data mining company. It is creating a database and imagebase of all buildings worldwide which have commercial or public interest, along with a platform for displaying this content to various types of users. An open community participates in the collection of data and images: this includes exterior photos, interior photos, and construction photos, and structural, architectural, descriptive, historical, financial, and company-related information.

What does 'openness' mean in this case?

For Emporis, it would not be possible to amass such an ambitious collection of information without an open community scattered around the world.

Emporis has editors in 66 countries, thus allowing for field research that goes deeper than any existing sources. The community has a diverse range of interests – for example, some members are interested in industrial buildings, some in historical buildings, and some concentrate mainly on photos.