The MapQuest® Platform is an industry-leading geospatial web services platform and comprehensive toolset that allows customers to build advanced mapping capabilities for a wide spectrum of web, wireless and desktop applications. With the MapQuest Platform: Enterprise Edition you get access to the MapQuest Platform and the service and support you need to develop rich, engaging mapping applications to help increase operational efficiency and improve revenue.

Enterprise Edition can help you realize more value from our technology by ensuring you get the MapQuest support and expertise you need, whenever you need it. Enterprise Edition is the right choice for customers who depend on their mapping solutions as mission-critical enterprise mapping applications for generating revenue and optimizing business processes. The benefits include:

• Unrestricted Access – You will have complete access to the full range of tools and web services available with the MapQuest Platform.
• Technical Support - MapQuest customer support and expertise will be available to help get your enterprise mapping solution up and running and help keep it running.
• A Dedicated Account Management Team - As an Enterprise Edition customer, you’ll work closely with an account management team that understands your challenges and consults with you to meet your unique needs.
• A Service Level Agreement – You’ll have the confidence of a Service Level Agreement that formalizes your relationship with MapQuest and clearly specifies the level of service you can expect.
• Internal Applications - Enterprise Edition customers can develop mapping solutions for private websites.
• Hosting Flexibility - For greater control, you can host and manage your data behind your firewall.

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The MapQuest Platform

The MapQuest® Platform provides a framework so developers don’t have to build online mapping applications from scratch. You’ll have a foundation to develop and integrate enterprise mapping solutions for your unique situation. The MapQuest Platform encompasses three functional categories: Map Display, Geocoding and Search, Routing.

• Map Display functions relate to the way users manipulate digital cartographic maps and aerial and satellite imagery.
• The Geocoding and Search category includes the functions users rely on to identify specific locations within a geographic boundary, using an address, description, or other characteristics.
• Routing functions provide detailed walking or driving directions.

These services draw on a wide spectrum of industry-leading datasets, including international data for many locations.

Enterprise Edition Features

Developer Productivity

MapQuest Platform Services provides a broad collection of “out of the box” capabilities for building advanced interactive mapping applications. Developers can implement many mapping features with just a few lines of code and draw from a library of code snippets and sample applications from the MapQuest Developer Network to get a mapping solution up and running quickly.

Developer Choice

MapQuest Platform Services offers an array of mapping APIs that open the door to greater interactivity, lower development cost, and quicker rollout of your mapping solutions. The MapQuest Platform: Enterprise Edition’s flexible map APIs allow developers to build rich multi-media applications using a variety of supported programming languages and environments:

• JavaScript™ API
• AS3 API
• FUJAX API
• Java™ API
• C++ API
• .NET API

JavaScript™ API

With our JavaScript API you can create interactive pages and easily integrate them into a JavaScript-based website.

• Compatibility - The JavaScript™ and FUJAX APIs have been namespaced and all third-party JavaScript™ libraries have been removed to eliminate occasional incompatibilities that resulted from the use of these libraries.

Adobe® Flex® and Flash™ (AS3 API)

Our AS3 API allows you to build map applications using native Adobe® ActionScript™ 3. Developers and designers can access the MapQuest Platform with the AS3 API using the components included for Adobe® Flex™ Builder™ 2 and Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 (CS3), making building mapping applications a drag and drop experience.

• No Server-Side Proxy Needed - When you build applications that run in Flash, you are no longer required to have a proxy server to handle traffic back to the MapQuest servers.

FUJAX API – (Flash Under JavaScript And XML)

This AJAX performance booster enables developers to write applications in JavaScript that leverage the power of Flash.

Java™ API

You can use our Java API when you need to leverage the full capabilities of the Java language and deploy to a scalable, powerful cross-platform infrastructure.

C++ API

Server-side applications that require speed and performance will benefit from our C++ API.

.NET API

Our .NET API provides access to the capabilities of the MapQuest Platform when building .NET based applications.

International Coverage

The MapQuest Platform: Enterprise Edition offers coverage for many international locations.

Map Display

A Rich Mapping Interface

The MapQuest Platform enables you to build mapping applications that allow your users to display, interact with, and customize high-quality maps, including applications with a drag and pan interface. Enterprise Edition gives you access to these features so you can create Rich Internet Applications (RIA) with our JavaScript, FUJAX or AS3 APIs¹:

Premium Data Sets

Integrate a variety of point and polygon content for the US and Canada for both map display and search. Content includes ZIP codes, US Parcels and Census data, as well as Neighborhoods for the US and Canada.

• Aerial Imagery and Hybrid Views – Satellite imagery and aerial photography for your mapping solution.
• Advanced Map Marker Features - With the MapQuest "declutter mode," automatically move collided markers to positions on the map with a leader line pointing to their original location. The "drag and snapback" feature allows users to drag markers around the map, which then "snap back" to their original location.
• Advanced Shape Overlays - Build applications that allow users to create and interact with a variety of overlays on maps, including shapes such as custom lines, polygons, rectangles, and ellipses. You can also add image overlays that can be used to represent boundaries, or place scalable images on a map, such as heat-maps or building floor plans you’ve custom created.
• Traffic - Add current traffic conditions to a map including traffic flow, incidents, construction and local events with the ability to customize the look and feel of how the data is displayed. Substitute your own icons, severity colors and choose what types of traffic data you want to display (for example, show traffic flow and incidents, but hide construction and local events). Traffic data is updated every five minutes.
• Custom Tile Layer Support - Easily bring in additional content and place it on top of MapQuest street maps and aerial images as custom tile layers.
• Data Feed Integration (KML & GeoRSS) - Easily integrate other geographic data via KML or GeoRSS with as little as one line of code. Some examples of data sources include public transportation, state parks, earthquakes and other natural disasters, news feeds, plus popular photo sharing and microblogging sites.
• Smart Rollovers – Rollover windows that adapt their size and positioning on the map based on the content placed in the window.
• Globe View – A map of the world presented as an interactive globe that will rotate in any direction.
• Smooth Zoom – Animated transitions between zoom levels.
• "Flickable" Maps – Maps that continue to pan based on pan speed and friction settings.

Search and Geocoding

Geocoding

Geocoding is the process of translating location information into a latitude and longitude. The MapQuest Platform provides a service built on proprietary technology using data from industry-leading providers to deliver highly accurate geocodes. Other geocoding features include:

• Multi-line and Single-line Geocoding – Provide locations either in single or multiple lines.
• Real-time Batch Geocoding – Our service allows you to geocode up to 100 locations in a single request to the service.
• Reverse Geocoding – Convert a latitude and longitude point into an address.
• Postal Code and City and Town Geocoding – Our service allows you to geocode postal codes and cities in many areas of the world.

Proximity Searches and Searches by Drive Time

You can build the capabilities that allow your users to search for locations in a number of ways, including:

• Search for locations within a defined geographic area such as a radius, a rectangle or a user-specified polygon.
• Search for locations along a route.
• Search according to driving distance or driving time.

Premium Data Sets

See Premium Data Set information under Map Display (see above)

Points of Interest

With Enterprise Edition you can license the MapQuest database of more than sixteen million premium business listings to enrich any application you build with the MapQuest Platform.

Simplified Data Management

MapQuest gives you access to simple tools to upload and manage your location information to help keep your website accurate and relevant.

Routing

Powerful Routing

Your users can generate maps and driving directions from one location to another or create an optimized route spanning multiple stops. The MapQuest proprietary routing algorithms are the same used on the leading U.S. mapping website², MapQuest.com.

Need More Information?

For more on MapQuest Platform: Enterprise Edition - Contact Sales about the specific advantages Enterprise Edition can bring to your business.

To register for a free Developer License - Go to the MapQuest® Developer Network, the one-stop resource for map APIs, related documentation, sample code, and articles.

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¹ Not all features of the MapQuest Platform are available in all APIs. Please contact sales for more information.

² comScore media metrics, US Mapping, 2004-2007 rates MapQuest as having the most Unique Visitors