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Understanding Map Tile Grids and Zoom Levels

August
06
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.
Maps GIS Code
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What is Routing?

August
02
With location services you can retrieve your current location, the location of a place you are trying to find and the turn-by-turn directions to get there. Providing directions between two or more locations is routing. We’ll show you how that works with TomTom’s Routing API.
Maps Routing Traffic
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WordPress Plugins and TomTom: Adding Routing and Geocoding

July
29
We conclude our series of articles on creating a WordPress Plugin that use the TomTom Maps and Search APIs, adding the final touch to our plugin: intelligent routing that helps a site user generate driving directions to guide them from their present location to their chosen store location. Moreover, they'll be smart directions based on current traffic conditions.
Maps Web SDK Consumer App Geocoding
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Wordpress Plugins and TomTom: The User-Facing Map

July
25
In the fourth installment of our WordPress Plugin series we'll develop the public side of the Wordpress Plugin — the map that appears on the website itself — along with a Wordpress shortcode that lets site administrators embed the Plugin's map into any web page quickly and easily.
Maps Web SDK Consumer App
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Using Traffic Data with Maps and Routes

July
22
TomTom Live Traffic continuously monitors traffic flow and traffic incidents, and this information can be combined with TomTom's mapping and routing services to provide better routes and real-time traffic visualizations.
Maps Routing Traffic
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TomTom Wins TAAS Technology Award for Electric Vehicle Technology Innovation

July
12
TomTom was presented with the TaaS (Transportation-as-a-Service) award for Outstanding Electric Vehicle Technology Innovation of the Year for our Electric Vehicle Toolkit to address range anxiety. The award pulled in more than 5,000 votes and winners were announced at the TaaS technology conference in Birmingham, UK.
Community Event
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WordPress Plugins and TomTom: Adding Stores to the Map

July
08
In the third installment of our WordPress Plugin series we'll build the Plugin admin components that take store addresses, convert them to coordinates with the Search API, and save the location data to a database.
Maps Web SDK Consumer App
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WordPress Plugins and TomTom: The Admin Panel 

July
03
In the second installment of our WordPress Plugin series we'll walk through creating the administrator-facing interface of the Plugin, saving our TomTom developer API key as a Plugin setting, and displaying a map in the Plugin admin panel.
Maps Web SDK Consumer App
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TomTom Maps APIs Kickoff Meetup in Amsterdam

June
28
On June 20th, we kicked off our first developer meetup in Amsterdam! There was good food, drinks, people and of course, great discussions around maps. Attendees came to learn more about our APIs and how adding location to your project is a simple solution. Learn more about our first meetup and when you can attend the next one!
Community Event
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What is Geocoding?

June
25
One of the most important mapping concepts you'll need to understand is "geocoding," or converting between user-readable location descriptions and computer-readable coordinates. This article explains the process of geocoding and provides some examples.
Maps Geocoding Search