Whether you are a retailer that wants to offer customers a map to the nearest location of one of your stores, or you want to integrate your asset tracking service with an online map that has street -level coverage of Mexico, or you want to help your customers get directions to their favorite restaurant - MapServ can help you. With MapServ, you can quickly and cost-effectively integrate a map rendering web service into your existing web application and give your customers the maps and directions they need.
MapServ offers extensive coverage of North American including Mexico, Canada and the United States. Maptuit's services power many leading Internet sites including Maps.com, Yellow Pages, the Washington Post and Go2.com to name a few.
Using MapServ's XML-based interface, you can quickly integrate powerful address matching, mapping, routing, and true-cost proximity searching capabilities into your application. Built on top of one of the most comprehensive road network models in the industry, Maptuit's broad range of services combine performance and quality.
The following capabilities are exposed through the MapServ interface:
Maptuit's address matching technology uses any combination of street address,
intersection, city name, region name, postal information, or place name to determine
the geographic coordinates of a location.
MapServ offers a full-text search capability that makes it very easy to look up
all points of interest that match a specific pattern as illustrated below.
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MapServ's reverse geocoder can take a coordinate and return with the closest
street address. Hints can be provided to 'steer' the algorithm towards certain
classes of roads. For instance, when reverse geocoding a coordinate captured in a
densely populated neighborhood, the nearest major street may be more useful than the
name of a side street or alley way.
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MapServ can be configured on the fly to provide raster images of varying color
depth, from black and white to full color. Map content is organized as a set of
layers. Layers, such as land use and building outlines, can be included or excluded
as required. Labels are anti-aliased and dynamically placed for maximum legibility.
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Leveraging Maptuit's patented routing algorithms, MapServ can find the optimal
way to travel for any given mode of transport and supports pedestrians, passenger cars,
and transport vehicles. Exceptions, including one-way streets, turn restrictions,
underpass clearances, bridge loading, and the Truck network (US State and Federal
legislation, both prohibitions and restrictions) are respected. Individual
customers can place additional restrictions on the road network to meet their
specific needs.
See also Route Sequencing
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Maptuit's directions are easy to follow. The directions system minimizes the number
of steps and the number of road name changes. Directions are also formatted to meet the
needs of the driver. Professional drivers prefer terse and concise directions while
consumers prefer each direction step to be fully spelt out.
MapServ's directions are independent of access device or language. For example,
to address the limitations of a WAP phone, direction steps are formatted as separate
pages in a stack. Truck-load carriers accessing directions over a satellite link
need concise directions, including all exit numbers, in a small footprint to
minimize communication costs. Users of web-based applications, who have more
bandwidth and higher resolution screens at their disposal can interact with the
unique online directions, clicking on each leg of a trip to get specific
information.
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MapServ's route sequencing technology can calculate the optimal way to visit
multiple locations, given a set of constraints. Consider a delivery company that
needs to visit 12 locations. What's the best order to visit those destinations while
traveling the least distance? What's the best order given that a number of customers
need to be visited at specific times?
Maptuit's patent-pending technology calculates the optimal order, including
door-to-door directions to multiple destinations with sub-second response.
Temporal constraints, including variable width time windows are supported.
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MapServ's point-of-interest database is used to store customer data. Information
in the database is spatially indexed for rapid proximity searching. Each point
-of-interest is categorized by keywords. Queries are comprised of keywords and
Boolean expressions. Each customer has control over how information is structured,
managed and queried. A web-based configuration system enables customers to edit
the information remotely.
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