Capabilities and Data Sources

Urban Mapping's map tiling engine is capable of rendering geographic data from virtually any source and fully customize the cartographic style(s) to match your brand, device, and use-case requirements. The map above uses Open Street Map data, a global, crowd-sourced datasets rapidly increasing in detail and coverage. Our team is also experienced rendering NAVTEQ and TeleAtlas data if street routing or address-level geocoding is a concern.

These tiles can also be composited with rendered tiles from the Mapfluence Visual API to produce complex thematic maps interwoven with detailed context.

Cartographic Styling

The style presented above is a generic example demonstrating a range of rendering techniques for areas, lines, and points of interest. Different information can be highlighted at different zoom levels, depending on the task - you tell us what is important and our professional cartographers can design a look and experience to complement your goals.

Supported Platforms and Integration Options

Our tiles are rendered in an industry-standard spherical mercator projection. Tile coordinates correspond to those used by Open Street Map and Google Maps. We can also support the Bing Maps tile system if necessary.

A number of Javascript- and Adobe Flash-based mapping frameworks can be used to present maps in web browsers, including:

• OpenLayers API (presented above)
• Google Maps Javascript API, Version 2
• Cloudmade Maps API
• ModestMaps
• OpenScales

Deployment Architecture

There are two options: we serve tiles on-demand from our geographically distributed clusters, or we deliver pre-rendered tiles which you host and serve. Urban Mapping deploys all of its web services in Amazon's EC2 environment, and our software architecture supports adding additional nodes to our clusters, offering capacity on demand. Additionally, we can leverage Amazon's content delivery infrastructure, CloudFront.

Urban Mapping hosts data centers in the United States, on both East Coast and West Coast, and offers 99.99% service availabilty.