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Where to Open a Chinese Restaurant in Amsterdam using TomTom Map APIs

January
14
If you're looking to open a restaurant you'll need to take into consideration location and where competitors are. By using surrounding data and demographic data you can create map that helps you visualize the best location to open up your restaurant.
Data Science Maps Search
Spotlight

The Power of TomTom Search API through the eyes of Yellow Pages

January
07
Yellow Pages is a digital media and marketing solutions leader that allows users to search for phone listings and local business locations. They are now using the TomTom Maps Search API to geocode millions of addresses a year. Yellow Pages geocodes these addresses to produce a geospatial location and perform address resolution
Customers Community
Perspective

Lessons Learned in 2019 & Our Goals for the New Decade

December
20
As 2019 comes to a close, our Developer Relations Leadership Team took some time to reflect on the past year. They discuss our team's successes and failures throughout the year and how those learnings helped us shaped our goals for for our developer community in 2020.
Community
Decoded

What is Geofencing?

December
10
Geofencing lets us create virtual boundaries on a map that can track assets and enable us to connect our users to the things that matter the most to them. Learn more about what geofencing really is, why it’s important to use and more importantly, how simple it is to create your own geofence.
Maps Geocoding Geofencing
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Autocomplete and Suggestions with the Search API

December
06
TomTom's Search API with autocomplete enables you to provide more meaningful results to your application's users. Take a look on how you can improve your search results within your app.
Search API Maps API Code
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Using GeoJSON Geometry Data to Draw Borders with TomTom Maps

November
22
Geographic Information System (GIS) data can come in a lot of forms, which can lead to confusion in how to represent data. One popular solution is GeoJSON, a data standard that was created by the Internet Engineering Task Force and defines a way to organize GIS data in the JSON format natively supported by the majority of web development languages, libraries, and frameworks. In this article we’ll look at the GeoJSON format, then use a GeoJSON data set to draw regional borders on a map with TomTom JavaScript Maps SDK for Web.
Maps GIS Code
Spotlight

Pip Pip Yalah Builds the First Ridesharing App for Morocco Serving Over 300,000 Users

November
19
Pip Pip Yalah is the largest ridesharing app in Morocco with over 300,000 users. Founded in 2013, the company started as a Facebook group that connected drivers and passengers. As the group grew, so did the need for an easier way to grab a ride which led the CEO and Founder, Hicham Zouaoui, to create a mobile app for users.
Community
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Displaying Density Heatmap Layers with the TomTom Web SDK

November
16
The TomTom Maps SDK for Web offers the easiest way to access the TomTom APIs for displaying maps along with other data sources. In this article, we'll build a map that displays the population density of the USA in the form of a heatmap. You'll see that it's remarkably easy to grab an external data source and use it to display custom layers on a map.
Maps web Code
Perspective

Top 5 Ways TomTom Can Help Your Startup

November
13
We're know for our partnerships with larger companies - but did you know that we also built TomTom Developer with startups in mind? We get startups and want to bring all their location ideas to life - so if your a new company trying to figure out what location provider to use, here a few reasons why we are a good fit.
Maps Consumer App
Perspective

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