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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

September

18

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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