5 Cool Ways to Use Maps APIs

APIs are designed to help developers build applications easier and faster, and SDKs help speed up the process by turning some of the most complex APIs into even easier-to-use functions. We’ll take a look at some of the most interesting ideas we see the TomTom Maps SDK for Web being used for and how to implement them.
Apr 12, 2023 · 9 min read
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Highlight Important Details with Custom Styling for Routing Sections

With TomTom Maps SDK for Web and the Routing API, we can access custom styling options for route sections. This lets us apply custom styling for segments along a route based on the section type. In this article, we’ll show you how you can apply custom styling to route sections based on the metadata that routing requests return.
Sep 02, 2020·9 mins read
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Adding OpenWeatherMap's Current Weather to TomTom Maps

The TomTom Maps SDK lets you build apps that provide excellent, up-to-date map, routing, and navigation information. It's also really easy to layer third-party data on TomTom maps to build apps that go beyond simple maps and routes. For example, we can combine a map with current weather data and visual map tiles from the OpenWeatherMap API to build an interesting project that is valuable to drivers on the road.
Aug 27, 2020·10 mins read
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Fitness Mapping with the Strava API and TomTom Maps

Fitness apps for runners, bikers, and hikers can collect useful information, including location data. Strava is a popular service used by athletes to track running, biking, and other exercise. And the cool thing is, Strava provides an API that lets you use that workout information in your own apps. The TomTom location APIs and Maps SDKs make it easy to incorporate location and routing information into almost any app. In this example we'll take route data from Strava and plot it on a web page with TomTom Maps SDK for Web.
Aug 24, 2020·11 mins read
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Manipulating and Styling Map Layers Beyond the Basics

Layers in a map are totally open to manipulation. In this article, we'll take a look at the mechanics of layers and how you can use features of the TomTom Maps SDKs and Map Display API to manipulate layers, add and remove layers, toggle layer visibility, and create custom styling for layers, so you can quickly adapt TomTom maps to the needs of your application.
Aug 21, 2020·10 mins read
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Putting the TomTom Location History and Geofencing APIs to Work

The TomTom Location History API provides a one-stop service for tracking objects over time. Combined with the Geofencing API, you can create sophisticated applications that turn location data points into actionable fleet intelligence. We'll show you how these APIs work together.
Aug 14, 2020·8 mins read
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Using the TomTom Maps SDK for Web with ASP.NET Core, Part 2

It's easy to integrate the TomTom Maps SDK for Web into web apps built on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — including popular JavaScript frameworks like Angular. In a previous article, we built the basic application. In this installment we add some more sophisticated features.
Aug 11, 2020·7 mins read
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Using the TomTom Maps SDK for Web with ASP.NET Core, Part 1

It's easy to integrate the TomTom Maps SDK for Web into web apps built on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — including popular JavaScript frameworks like Angular. But can we put it to work with a C# framework like ASP.NET Core? Yes, and we'll show you how.
Aug 03, 2020·10 mins read
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Building a Responsive Location Search Component with a React Search Box

Modern web standards allow developers to deliver location-aware features to users based on device GPS or network information. This information could be useful on its own — but, when combined with a mapping service, this information enables many additional interesting features. This tutorial will describe how to build a responsive web application with a point of interest (POI) location search feature using the React web framework and the TomTom Search API.
Jul 29, 2020·9 mins read
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