About Cecilian Partners

Cecilian Partners brings data-driven innovation to real estate development and the home buying process. The company’s flagship platform, Residential OS™ reshapes the community development process with a comprehensive suite of products, including interactive 3D maps, property development software, digital marketing tools, and an all-in-one app that enhances community management and resident lifestyle. 

Cecilian's digital operations platform, The XO, offers builders and developers a single place to store, manage, and use their data, along with interactive 3D maps featuring live homesite inventory. Cecilian’s Xplorer uses interactive 3D maps to provide homebuyers and visitors with an immersive visual experience through highly customizable, detailed, and interactive digital maps. By integrating advanced technologies into real estate mapping, Cecilian Partners is redefining how planned communities are visualized and experienced by homebuyers.

Bridging data and design in real estate maps

For years, home builders and developers have relied on static maps that lacked interactivity and failed to offer an engaging experience for potential buyers. These traditional maps are difficult to update and often leave out spatial information that is very valuable for buyers as they make one of the most significant purchases of their lives. Cecilian Partners set out to improve the user experience for both property developers and buyers by transforming real estate mapping technologies, and delivering visually compelling, intuitive, and data-rich map-based insights.

To provide users with immersive, data-driven maps that accurately represent a community and its offerings, the company needed to integrate a variety of data sources. Initially, the team experimented with layering civil engineering files—such as CAD and GIS data—onto publicly available georeferenced data. While effective, this solution lacked flexibility. Additionally, the market’s demand for highly detailed maps presented new data integration challenges. Cecilian Partners needed a more customizable mapping solution that could handle complex data integration and offer a smoother, more engaging experience for users.

Dynamic 3D maps with unmatched flexibility and precision

Mapbox provides Cecilian Partners with a full-featured suite of mapping tools for data integration, visualization, and rendering. Extensive customization options, efficiency of geospatial data, and the flexibility of Mapbox APIs have enabled the company to offer users a dynamic and reliable map experience.

Using Mapbox GL JS for web map rendering and the Mapbox Maps SDKs for the iOS and Android versions of XO and Xplorer, Cecilian Partners delivers efficient, visually rich, and interactive map experiences. Mapbox Studio allows the Cecilian team to create custom map styles tailored to the unique needs of each client and community, while also streamlining workflows for replication and templating.

Unlike other mapping solutions, Mapbox guarantees an unprecedented level of detail in 3D. Map engineers can add shadows and lighting, simulate day-night and seasonal transitions, and even curve the edges of structures, moving beyond basic blocky extrusions. This flexibility is crucial for master planned communities, where it is essential to highlight buildings, amenities, points of interest, and residential areas in a community with depth and realism. Mapbox rendering efficiency ensures that the base map, all custom data, and 3D elements load quickly and smoothly, providing a polished and insightful map experience.

The Mapbox Geocoding API makes it easy for users to navigate within locations, automatically moving from one area to another. Additionally, the Mapbox Isochrone API enables homebuyers to virtually explore communities and view walking, biking, and driving distances to various amenities.

Setting new industry standards with Mapbox 

Using Mapbox, Cecilian Partners pioneered the world’s first automated ‘anti-monotony’ filter for real estate development. This technology, based on geospatial recognition of proximate lots, helps prevent repetitive designs in communities. Cecilian Partners continues to elevate the home buying experience and sets new industry standards for real estate mapping technology. By combining Mapbox Maps, Search and Navigation solutions, and seamlessly integrating third-party data sources, Cecilian Partners offers developers and home builders an efficient, insightful, and highly interactive mapping experience.