Blog

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.

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.

Attention all developers – we’ve got a few events coming up that might be local to you! Check out this blog to see what’s going on and how you can attend! Happy Mapping.

How do you take a round object and display it accurately on a flat surface? TomTom's location services employ a Spherical Mercator projection of the earth's surface to create the underlying map representation used by the services. The map data is further delineated by zoom levels and tile grids that provide the exact visual representation you need to display a map.