In today’s world we use maps for everything from tracking packages to navigating from point A to point B to monitoring a fleet of drivers. Map data has become an important part of our everyday lives. Using open source maps in your map-centric [...]

The fourth industrial revolution — Industry 4.0 — has taken hold and continues to transform how manufacturers manage their operations, do business in the marketplace and lean into the future. The technologies powering the revolution are dynamic, [...]

For more than a decade, GIS professionals have relied upon TomTom MultiNet to deliver high-quality map data with:

• Unsurpassed accuracy and currency
• Highly accurate geocoding match rates
• Seamless street network with names, classes, ramp [...]

Licensing map data for any number of uses — fleet management, geocoding, route optimization, etc., — also means assuming responsibility for data storage, security and maintenance. Meeting these responsibilities can be a burden on staff and [...]

For many organizations map data is a necessity. As such, its value can sometimes be reduced to a budget line item instead of how the map data can be leveraged to create efficiencies.

Accuracy, reliability and updating frequency are typically on [...]

Map data is only effective if it is reliable, and updating map data is the only way to ensure its accuracy. That could raise some questions about the map data you’re using or considering.

To assume that your map data is reliable can be risky. [...]

Map data is an essential tool and critical budget line item for GIS departments. Determining the right amount of money to set aside requires consideration and periodic review of several key licensing and internal costs.

App developers and GIS specialists across a range of industries are tasked with keeping pace with a world that’s not static. They need easy access to map APIs and map data to ensure the fleet management, geocoding and geomarketing solutions [...]