MAPRISE integrates real estate, hazard, demographic, and facility data for all seven Kyushu prefectures into 8 business-oriented categories, with industry knowledge backing the AI chat for legal, geological, and market questions. Here's a business-perspective snapshot of what MAPRISE makes visible as of May 2026, and where we have layers that competitors don't.
MAPRISE is a GIS SaaS supporting real estate, finance, homebuilder, developer, and government workflows across the seven prefectures of Kyushu. As of May 2026, the major datasets needed for these workflows are integrated into 8 categories, with industry knowledge backing the AI chat. This post is a business-perspective tour of "what MAPRISE shows you today" across those eight categories.
The big picture (8 categories)
| Group | Category | Main use |
|---|---|---|
| G1 | Base map and administrative boundaries | Base layer, municipality polygons |
| G2 | Legal restrictions and zoning | Buildability and development feasibility |
| G3 | Price and real estate | Land valuation, transaction comparables |
| G4 | Disaster risk and hazards | Disaster risk evaluation |
| G5 | Public safety | Traffic accidents, crime |
| G6 | Facilities and transport | Medical / school / welfare / public / rail / bus |
| G7 | Demographics and economy | Population forecasts, economic census |
| G8 | Individual buildings and 3D | 3D city models in major cities, vacant lots |
G1-G2: Legal restrictions — instant buildability decisions
The "can we build it or not?" data is essential across all workflows for real estate brokers, homebuilders, and developers. MAPRISE consolidates everything into a single click-on-the-map popup:
- Zoning categories (13 types, the starting point for BCR / FAR / absolute height limits)
- Fire prevention zones (wood vs. fire-resistant decision)
- Height districts
- Urbanization control zones (urbanization promotion vs. control)
- Planned roads, planned parks, district plans
- Agricultural zones and forest zones (land-conversion restrictions)
- Embankment regulation zones (under the May 2023 law)
Showing all of this in a single popup is a level of integration that public reference services don't reach.
G3: Price and real estate — about 20 years of land prices + extensive transactions
The foundation for valuation and market analysis: yearly point views, change-rate maps, two-point comparisons, and transaction scatter plots.
- Publicly maintained land price information (about 20 years of time series)
- Real estate transaction records (extensive, recent included)
- Registered parcel maps and farmland boundaries (for reference)
- Appraisal report data (UI integration expanding)
Land price formats vary by year, but MAPRISE normalizes internally so generational differences are absorbed.
G4: Disaster risk — major hazards + geology
Essential for collateral evaluation, material facts disclosure, and homebuyer briefings.
- Rivers, evacuation facilities
- Geological polygons (soft vs. firm ground identification)
- Sediment disaster warning zones
- Flood inundation (max scenario) / flood duration / inland flooding / sediment / tsunami
A beta seismic simulation also runs, integrating major scenarios with per-building collapse probability analysis.
G5: Public safety — recent years of accidents and crime
Filter by area / year / type to visualize safety trends around any property.
G6: Facilities and transport — everything nearby, at a glance
POI data for property location evaluation: medical, schools (including elementary / junior high school district polygons), welfare, public facilities, railway lines, bus stops.
Ask the AI chat "list medical facilities, schools, and shelters within 1 km of this point" and you get counts plus the nearest facilities, sorted by distance.
G7: Demographics and economy — mesh × multi-time-point future population
One of MAPRISE's biggest differentiators. The "will this location still matter in 30 years?" question.
- National Census small-area statistics
- Future population forecasts (multiple editions, multiple time points)
- Economic census
- Municipal fiscal index
- Housing starts
With a year slider plus land price overlay, "Win-Win locations" (rising price × stable population) become visually obvious.
G8: Individual buildings and 3D — coverage in major cities
3D city model integration powers per-building collapse probability under each seismic scenario, and a multi-decade land-use mesh timeline (multiple time points from the past to present).
External tile services (many)
We directly reference publicly provided raster/vector tile services (national geographic survey, hazard portal, geological survey, etc.). An aerial photo timeline spanning from prewar to the present is also offered.
Knowledge backing the AI chat
In addition to the underlying database, we maintain industry knowledge articles connected to the AI chat:
- Legal regulations (zoning / fire prevention / urbanization zoning / farmland & forest acts / hazards in collateral evaluation)
- Geology and seismic (geological risk, Kyushu geology overview, major active faults)
- Homebuilder workflow (Building Standards Act collective regulations, building permit procedure, warranty and performance indication)
- Market analysis (market trends, regional housing starts)
When you ask the AI chat a natural-language question, it pulls relevant context from these.
Licensing
All data runs under commercial-use-permitted licenses. Attribution is shown on every MAPRISE screen. National geographic survey tiles and hazard portal tiles are reference-only — no caching of our own, because redistribution is prohibited.
Competitive comparison
| Feature | Public reference | General GIS | Specialist GIS | MAPRISE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Split-screen | ❌ | ⭕ | ⭕ | ⭕ |
| Time-series comparison | △ | △ | ⭕ | ⭕ |
| One-stop DD | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ⭕ |
| AI conversation | ❌ | ❌ | △ | ⭕ |
| Integrated appraisal report UI | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | 🟡 expanding |
| Auto-generated AI PDF report | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ⭕ |
| Monthly cost (Pro-tier equivalent) | Free | ~30,000 JPY | ~60,000 JPY | 7,800 JPY |
Competitor monthly prices are approximate reference values based on publicly available information as of 2026 (our own research) — check each vendor for current pricing.
"One-stop DD", "AI conversation", and "integrated appraisal report UI" are differentiators for MAPRISE, based on our own research as of 2026.
What's next
- Expanding the integrated UI for appraisal report information
- Additional homebuilder data (sunshine regulation designated zones, soil survey records)
- Adjacent region expansion (timing separately)
- Mid-precision shaking simulation
Summary
The data MAPRISE delivers as of May 2026 has reached the scale of a single SaaS that covers all seven Kyushu prefectures. From here, we'll deepen appraisal and homebuilder data while preparing for adjacent-region expansion.
Source details: /data-sources. Update history: /data-updates.
Questions or feedback? Reach us at info@maprise.jp.
Tags: #data #kyushu #GIS #real-estate #data-catalog
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