Back your research with comprehensive data

MAPCAT relies on data aggregated in OSM, the world’s largest and most detailed open map database. These data can serve as a basis for research and educational purposes. Are you…

• a researcher involved in a scientific study with geographical reference?
• a student in need for geographical, location related research for your thesis?
• a teacher, an academic and need GIS data for educational material?

MAPCAT is willing to provide you map services for free.

Involve citizens in public activity

Local governments, public service providers have the interest to involve citizens in public activity and support cooperation between the community and government. These organizations also have the obligation to publish certain information. A high proportion of the information involved are location related, best visualized on maps embedded to the sites of the institutions. A few examples:

• Show public institutions (schools, health- and social care services etc.), highlight changes of administrative information,
• Mark roadworks, traffic changes, support alternative route planning,
• Visualize public transport and related information, support multi-modal route planning,
• Publish environmental reports (noise map, pollution levels etc.), urban plans and projects,
• Show local events (elections, cultural events etc.),
• Provide tools for location related reporting to citizens.

Keep an eye on your vehicles

Operation of fleets is a classic field that applies location-based services, involving organizations like taxi companies, freight companies, rescue and security services, etc. The GIS engine is a core component of fleet management systems, its performance and costs determine the effectiveness of the complete solution. Services and tools involved:

• Referencing GPS coordinates of tracked vehicles to transport networks, following routes and positions of vehicles on the map (map matching)
• Address search, geocoding and reverse geocoding to determine from-to points for routes to go
• Route planning, alternative routes for optimization of task assignments in the field.

MAPCAT provides an advanced, powerful background and, at the same time, a cost-effective service that can be tailored to the exact needs of the operation.

See positions in the context of real-world objects

Tracking vehicles, persons or objects is a basis for more and more applications in various fields. A key service to these applications is map matching, operation that references GPS coordinates of the tracked object to relevant elements of the map, and follows the routes, identifies positions of the object of the surveillance. A few application areas of tracking:

• Vehicles (see also at Transport and Fleet management sections),
• Mobile devices to provide location-based services like navigation, advertising, alerts (e.g. weather), information on request on nearest services of a certain type,
• Persons for assistive healthcare,
• Objects, persons in rescue operations,
• Stolen assets, goods, dangerous objects, hazardous chemicals or waste etc. for security reasons.

MAPCAT provides you a map API that can be easily integrated into your existing IT infrastructure, no matter if it is a new install or a switch from another application.

Overcoming the daily challenge of timely deliveries

For delivery companies (express delivery, couriers, food delivery, taxi, etc.), it is a daily challenge and key to customer satisfaction  to meet the deadlines and therefore to optimize the routes of their employees/vehicles. They have the need for a mapping application that has a highly detailed map database and offers reliable and effective search and routing engines. Typical use cases:

• Route planning, alternative routes for optimization of task assignments in the field,
• Address search, geocoding and reverse geocoding to determine from-to points for routes to go,
• Vehicle tracking (see also at Transport and Fleet management sections),
• Real-time traffic information and route optimization,
• Reporting and analysis of the operations.

MAPCAT provides you a map API that can be easily integrated into your existing IT infrastructure, no matter if it is a new install or a switch from another application.

Ease the travel through practical details

To travel, people need to search for places to visit, plan the trip, find the way, link memories to visited places, share with others. For travel agencies, tourism organizers, tourist information- and guide services, it is a must to embed maps and location-based tools to their sites. A few examples:

• Mark, highlight travel locations on specific map layers,
• Show accommodations on map, support booking with descriptive information and advanced search,
• Support detailed search, custom visualization of touristic attractions and recommended itineraries,
• Support advanced, keyword-based search of points of interests to find specific restaurants, shops, offices, services etc.,
• Provide multi-profile route planner supporting both long-distance and local route planning.

MAPCAT provides you a map API that helps you visualize all the places and routes you wish to share with your clients. Easy to install and integrate to your current systems.

Help them picture living in that place

Map-based applications empower estate agencies to increase the quality of their services in mediating properties, land, and buildings for sale and rent. Some map-based services to support clients:

• Visualizing property listings and rentals on the map, with related descriptive information and administrative data,
• Supporting detailed address search, querying properties for sale or rent in a given area,
• Advanced search of points of interest in the vicinity of a certain property,
• Special routing services targeted to analysis of a property’s distance from given points of interest or from public transport (how good the connections are to important establishments and transport means),
• Thematic maps visualizing statistics on different districts, areas of a settlement (e.g. how clean, safe, quiet etc. the area, price levels).

MAPCAT provides you a map API that helps you visualize places, including search and routing options for your clients. Easy to install and integrate to your current systems.

Enrich your content for more engagement

With facts and conclusions, contents like events, stories, reports, forecasts, statistics visualized on thematic maps and related to places, articles become more informative, the audience will get better insights, become more involved. News and magazine sites, as well as event organisers can trigger more engagement by embedding maps and mapping tools on their sites. Typical applications:

• Follow events of major interest (e.g. elections, important sports events, disasters etc.) with minute by minute news and broadcast visualized on maps, with search and links to descriptive information and multimedia materials,
• Publish the logistics of large-scale events such as festivals, conferences, ceremonies, formal parties, concerts, highlighting transportation, accommodation, catering possibilities nearby.
• Provide specific search and routing tools,
• Show weather forecast on maps,
• Visualize  interesting statistics on thematic maps, based on spatial analysis,
• Use maps to display background information to articles etc.

MAPCAT provides you a map API that helps you visualize places, including search and routing options for your clients. Easy to install and integrate to your current systems.

Enrich your website to create added value

Help your customers find on your website every info they need as quickly as possible. Visual information sharing can trigger much more engagemet than simple text.  

Typical solutions:

• Mark the location of your shop/restaurant on the map;
• Mark all your affiliates;
• Visualize all shops selling your product;
• Visualize how to get to your office/shop;
• Show your customers any important amenities around your business.

If you wish to embed a custom map or use it on a site with high usage, we recommend to use our map API. It’s easy to install and integrate to your current systems.