Online Mapping Services
Online mapping services have the advantage of being constantly refreshed, meaning there is no need to load updates locally. Held on remote servers with more storage space than most local machines, these online services can also provide access to much larger datasets such as all the public transport timetables in Britain or maps and geocodes for the world. They provide flexibility and are easy to integrate into your own application. Our experienced team can help you embed live online mapping services into your own applications or build an interface specifically for you.
The HERE Location Platform is a global web map service providing a ready-to-use set of APIs enables users to quickly develop and customise their applications by incorporating maps, placing their own data on a map, tracking vehicles and planning routes.
The Platform draws on a comprehensive database containing global map content, which you can quickly integrate into your applications according to your requirements. Users can benefit from the HERE Location Platform by using it to underpin a range of applications, which can take advantage of a series of attributes linked to the road network.
When used in the context of route and schedule optimisation, the HERE Location Platform can bring a wide range of benefits; drawing on data that is constantly being updated, logistics managers can lower their operational costs through better mobile asset utilisation, improve their ETA calculations with live traffic speeds, ensure better customer service through more reliable, compliant routing and undertake post-trip analysis to improve future driving behaviour. Users can also perform geofencing, to understand proximity of their vehicles to customers for example, or upload their own information and view it on the map.
The HERE Location Platform offers easy-to-use geocoding functionality, enabling you to assign geocodes to your data for individual records or in batch mode. Assigning precise co-ordinates to data is essential for organisations in all geo-spatial applications, such as planning the delivery of goods, analysing territories, or managing fixed assets. Each record is scored on the basis seven levels e.g. premise-level, building-level, street-level, and so on, to help you understand the precision of the assigned geocode.
The Platform’s range of road speed options, which include specific speeds according to vehicle type and time of day, can assist with the definition and balancing of realistic sales territories or the planning of efficient fleet routes and schedules, or help with strategic questions such as the optimal locations for new sites according to drive-times.
The HERE Location Platform is excellent for map-based visualisation and geo-marketing analytics for organisations adopting big data tools and leveraging analytics to drive their business decisions.
What’s key?
- International geocoding, mapping and route calculation.
- The maps provided are up to street-level and regularly updated.
- Ready-to-use set of APIs lets you quickly develop and customise your applications via JavaScript or web services, or develop for mobile solutions using dedicated SDKs.
