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5 Innovative Ways Government and Agencies can use Mapping

November
05
Government agencies and NGOs gather data about their communities that provides insights and information valuable for effective programs and planning. We’ll examine five innovative ways governments and agencies are collecting or using open data sources to improve civic life. For each of these five topics, we’ll look at the opportunities for developers to create applications and the TomTom APIs and SDKs they can use to power these applications.
Maps Consumer App Community
Build Different

Halloween Fun with TomTom's Map Styler

October
31
Most mapping apps use default map styling. The Map Styler tool for the new TomTom JavaScript Maps SDK for Web makes it easy to create totally custom style templates that you can apply to your maps. What better way to demonstrate than to walk you through the process of creating a custom Halloween theme.
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Perspective

Bats, Beasts, and Beacons, oh my! Geofencing and Privacy this Halloween

October
29
This Halloween, you can create an application that uses data, but doesn’t abuse it, and have fun experimenting with location-based code for a good cause. Let's explore the ethics and use case of using someone else’s location info, and how the Geofencing API can still offer engineers a way to create applications that protect the privacy of all parties.
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Spotlight

TomTom Takes Home Three Awards for Developer Portal and Maps APIs

October
25
TomTom was honored with three awards from both the Developer Portal Awards and API World Awards for our work on our Developer Portal and our APIs. A year after we launched the Developer Portal, we are excited to be recognized for our products and user experience.
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Decoded

Pinpoint Locations with Mapcode Support in the TomTom Search API

October
22
Mapcodes are a free, open way to make every house or location on Earth addressable by a short code. With nothing else except your mapcode, a navigation system will bring someone to within meters of your front door. It’s easier to remember than coordinates, and in many cases more accurate than a street address. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at Mapcode and demonstrate how the TomTom Search API provides direct support for finding locations with mapcodes.
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Visualizing Filming Locations with the TomTom Maps SDK for Web

October
17
Our location services and the Maps SDK for Web make it easy for programmers to create location-aware visualizations. In this tutorial we’ll walk through an application that uses a public data set of film locations in New York City to display these locations and information about them on a map. We'll also look at the techniques you can use to understand and convert other data sources to similar mapping displays, even if they don't include latitude and longitude coordinates.
Maps Geocoding web
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TomTom Takes Over TechCrunch Disrupt 2019

October
11
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
08
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
04
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
20
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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