Maptoolkit (MTK) is a fully fledged map API built on top of Openlayers and Google Maps API. It is all your mapping needs in a box. Plus optional topographic cartography down to zoom level 17, worldwide, between 72dpi and 300dpi.

MTK is unique in terms of scalability and flexibility, as it comes with performant index servers to index and mirror your geo data for maximum scalability. Have a look at our showcases.

• Advantages: Flexibility + Scalability + Millions of POIs (points of interest) + Syndication of your POIs elsewhere. See below!
• Model: Software as a Service.
• Make or buy? The answer is clear: You don’t want to invest the years of knowhow and effort that we have invested. Doesn’t scale.
• Use cases? Plenty. You can use MTK to put a map on every page in every context or create one huge map of all your data or integrate it in search for something or create a route portal or.. (all are real life examples from customers). Just imagine. See our showcases!

Take the Quiz: Is Maptoolkit the right technology for my project?

Clustering

Without clusterings browser start to become slow at 100 POIs or so. We have developed server side clustering that enable you to use hundrets of thousands of POIs in one map if you wish.

Interactive Example: Try it out!

But look closely: Our clusters don’t just solve a technical problem – they actually improve the user experience with functions like heatmap functionality and multi-zoom. (Btw: There are plenty of different cluster styles available, not just the square ones above.)

Flexibility and simple integration

Maptoolkit is a Javascript framework/API and thus technology agnostic. All features and data calls are encoded as simple Javascript parametres – in a syntax your application can easily write. Needless to say that MTK is also fully internationalised. Furthermore ALL our functions can be called by external javascript functions – so you can call features such as fulltextsearch or zoom or whatever actually from OUTSIDE of a map if you want. The API allows all kinds of adaptations.

Data inside!

Maptoolkit is not just technology – it comes preloaded with millions of POIs from various sources: Sights, restaurants, photos, videos, sport routes, cafés, current weather, etc. You can choose per each map view which data you display, and how. Of course your data can equally be displayed, clustered and fulltext-searched, too! You can also enable your users to contribute data (POIs, routes, areas): Maptoolkit features to excellent geodata editor that you can test drive on Bikemap.net.

The MTK Filmstrip is just one of many examples of data and interfaces that comes with MTK. Try moving the map somewhere else!

Data syndication

All Maptoolkit customers have the possibility to open their geodata for sharing by specific or all other Maptoolkit customers. This creates a win-win-situation between our customers – data for traffic. Also, powerful APIs in both (!) directions give you full control over your data.

Advanced map controls

All our maps and data types can be used with advanced features like fulltext search, automatic permalinks, fullscreen mode, location search, etc. Highly configurable. All interaction modes are automatically optimized for touchscreen usage on devices such as iPhone, iPad or Android.

Visit http://mtk2.toursprung.com/samples/iphone on your mobile device.

Powerful administration backend

The admin backend, while fully optional, enables you to view and edit your geo data, set global settings and most of all: Give your staff a powerful yet supereasy-to-use MapWizard with which one can create maps and data mashups with just a few clicks. CMS integration (into the CMS of your choice) makes adding a map to an article as easy as adding an image! Let us demo you the tool in a meeting – we’re just scratching on the surface here.

Scalability

Maptoolkit is not only optimised for high numbers of POIs but also high traffic: Sophisticated caching algorithms make high numbers of map requests a breeze. MTK is built to scale.

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