Features

Most modern applications require access to location related data and services in order to provide a location-aware context to their users. This location-awareness may be evident in various ways:

• Through a map showing your clients’ location or your fleet’s whereabouts
• A data-entry form to enter a delivery address
• Or a postal code validation field to search for service availability around a location
• Even getting nearest points of interest around a certain location

Typically location-aware applications require one of the following functional features:

• Showing a map
• Drawing on a map
• Finding the location of an address (geocoding)
• Finding an address based on a location (reverse-geocoding)
• Routing from one point to another
• Executing spatial operations of one short or another.

However there are other non-functional requirements too.

• Helping the user completing a form (UX)
• Securing your data (location/clients)
• Protecting your privacy
• Working on an intranet
• Scaling your environment on demand with flexible pricing models.
• Creating custom location content (e.g. custom layers) that must reside on your premises