ABmaps

ABmaps.com is a free web mapping server and portal. The website provides services such as address finding, route planner and others. The mapping engine behind the portal is developed by AtlasCT. The technology is based on streaming vector graphics and Macromedia Flash format compared to other popular mapping portals such as Google Maps and Windows Live Local which utilize raster maps.

Services

The services of the portal include:

Mobile

The portal offers maps for mobile devices via the ABmaps Mobile application. ABmaps Mobile belongs to the so-called 'Offboard' category, which means that the actual maps data doesn't have to be stored on the device itself but downloaded from the Internet using GPRS. This approach provides a considerably lower cost mobile maps service for the public, but on the other hand it results in a slower map navigation which depends on a GPRS connection speed. The application provided for free but the user must pay for its own internet traffic. The ABmaps Mobile application can run on mobile devices which support Java ME and are Internet enabled.

World maps

ABmaps contains a global map of the world and more detailed maps of the countries listed below. The maps data of these countries is provided by Navteq and allows street level driving directions and address finding. The present countries with detailed coverage are:

North America
South America
Europe
Middle East
Australia

See also

References

Comparable services

External links


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, May 26, 2013. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.