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TomTom Takes Over TechCrunch Disrupt 2019

October

TomTom’s Developer team made its way to TechCrunch Disrupt 2019 in San Francisco to showcase their Maps APIs, new products and to announce a brand new partnership with Verizon.

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Building Embedded TomTom Maps with HTML Web Components and JavaScript

October

Web Components are an HTML standard that provide a great way to create reusable components that will work nicely with any web framework — or no framework at all. With Web Components, you can create a map component that’s easy to plug into any web page. This article will show how to embed a map in a Web Component using

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Create Custom Map Styles with TomTom's Map Styler

October

Whether your building an application or creating art, the Map Styler enables you to create beautiful maps and add it to your project. Learn how to build a customized map using TomTom's Map Styler with this quick tutorial on how to modify your map to build a simple, modern, black and white map of your favorite city.

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Embedding TomTom Maps in an iOS App with SwiftUI

September

SwiftUI is Apple's latest and greatest interface for creating application interfaces. It's easy to adapt UIKit components like the TomTom Maps SDK for iOS for use with SwiftUI by using the UiViewRepresentable protocol. This article will show how to use SwiftUI to embed a TomTom Map in an iOS app, the basic building block for almost any mapping application.

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Minimize Range Anxiety with TomTom’s Developer Toolkit for Electric Mobility

September

With more Electric Vehicles available on the market, TomTom helps developers build applications to prevent and minimize the range anxiety derived from planning long distance routes. We demonstrate the new Web SDK from TomTom and how to integrate consumption models in the route and charging station calculations.

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Tilt and Rotation with TomTom JavaScript Maps SDK for Web 5.0

September

TomTom JavaScript Maps SDK for Web 5.0 includes support for new mapping capabilities including the ability to rotate the map and the ability to change the map’s tilt programmatically. There’s even a new flyTo mode that animates the transition between views. In this article, we’ll build an application using the TomTom JavaScript Maps SDK for Web and write code to demonstrate how to set the map location, orientation, and perspective.

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Understanding Fuzzy Search

September

TomTom maps return useful results even if you misspell a search term or provide incomplete address information. In this article we'll explain how the TomTom Search API provides "fuzzy search" results for points of interest through spell-checking, nearby search options, geometric boundary searches, route searches and more.

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Why TomTom Developer Portal is a Great Resource for Students

September

For students applying for an internship, first job, or admission to advanced studies, it helps to have a solid portfolio of applications to show off your skills. TomTom Developer Portal makes it easy for you to build professional-looking portfolio apps by embedding industry standard mapping into your applications. In this article, we'll explain why the features available through the TomTom Developer Portal are an excellent resource for students to add a variety of location services to their applications portfolio.

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Meet the TomTom Developer Evangelists

August

Meet our two Developer Evangelists who are here to help you build different. These two are programmers who have a love for Maps and app building. Learn more about their goals at TomTom and how they can support your next project using TomTom's Maps APIs.

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Why Developers Should Care About EV Drivers

August

The number of Electric Vehicles (EVs) on the road is increasing every year. There are an estimated 5.12 million EVs on the road today, and sales of EVs increased by 64% just from 2017 to 2018. Now that drivers are considering the switch to EVs, some common questions arise, and EV-aware apps are a big opportunity for developers, such as routing services optimized for EV drivers and the ability to provide up-to-date information about the location and availability of charging stations. We'll take a look at those concerns and show you how TomTom Developer Toolkit for Electric Mobility provides new features that simplify building location-based apps for EV drivers.

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