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5 Ways to Use Location Technology in Logistics

January
28
Logistics is often thought of as planes, trains, and freight trucks, but any company or organization that moves things or people from one place to another is involved in logistics. We’ll examine five innovative ways developers can use TomTom mapping APIs and SDKs to provide more effective planning, visualization, insights, and information in the field of logistics.
Maps fleet and logistics
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Thrills and Hills Tutorial: Understanding Route Parameters in the Routing API

January
21
The Routing API contains a few unique parameters which allow developers to create unique journeys for their users, so that drivers have the freedom to explore new terrains and scenic routes by car while navigating safely to their destination. In this article, I’ll explain how to implement these features, what they do, and how they affect the driver’s experience.
Code Routing
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Where to Open a Chinese Restaurant in Amsterdam using TomTom Maps 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 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