RouteYou for application builders
Table of contents
- What type of applications?
- What type of service can you use
- 1. Record your route and send a recorded set of x,y-coordinates for enhancement to RouteYou
- 2. Offer a specific set of routes in the neighbourhood of your location
- 3. Display a specific route on your device
- 4. Offer a specific set of Points of Interest (POIs) in the neighbourhood of your location
- 5. Allow the editing of recorded routes on your website (or ours) using the RoutePlanner
- 6. Allow your users to create a route from scratch on your website using the RoutePlanner (or ours)
- 7. Record MultiMedia (MM) and send to RouteYou for later use
- 8. Record extra attributes along the track such as heart beat,...
- 9. Display a route and extra attributes on your (mobile) website with the RouteViewer
- 10. Display a set of routes on your (mobile) website with the MapSearch
- Take it a step further: Professional Services
What type of applications?
If you are an application builder on Smartphones or GPS devices and you do something with your (GPS) position. The functionality and content we offer might be a big jumpstart for your app. As well on your app-device, as your website or our community website.
What type of service can you use
Here is a list of 10 top things you might like to use
1. Record your route and send a recorded set of x,y-coordinates for enhancement to RouteYou
What?
Record your route on your device/app and send a recorded set of x,y-coordinates to RouteYou. We do the following:
- We calculate the height profile of the route (read more about the height profile here)
- We calculate the difficulty level of the route and many other statistics (read more here)
- We convert the route so it can be made visible in the RouteViewer (on your site or on www.routeyou.com)
- We convert the route to a large set of different formats you can offer for download to your customers (read more here)
- We can add POIs located along the route (even with specific criteria, read more about it here)
- We can re-route the track along our available networks to clean up irregularities and to generate instructions.
How?
Using our webservices: (read more about it here).
Use our download plugin: (read more about it here).
2. Offer a specific set of routes in the neighbourhood of your location
Select a specific set of routes you want to offer near the location of the user.
You can select on following attributes:
- type (jogging, race cycling, MTB, hiking, recreational walking...)
- quality
- length
- difficulty, height meters,...
- user/author
- characteristics such as car free, child friendly,....
- themes such as architecture, history, world war, heritage, nature, cycling classics, climbs and cols
- keywords
- ... If you think about something else, ask us. We probably have it. Or otherwise we probably are building it.
How?
Using our webservices: (read more about it here).
Use our MapSearch plugin: (read more about it here).
3. Display a specific route on your device
Display the selected route on your device, including
- geometry (track)
- Points of Interest (POIs) along this route with text, pictures, video and sound
- instructions
- background tiles
How?
Using our webservices: (read more about it here).
Use our RouteViewer plugin: (read more about it here).
4. Offer a specific set of Points of Interest (POIs) in the neighbourhood of your location
Select a specific set of Points of Interest you want to offer near the location of the user.
You can select on following attributes:
- type (over 400 types including, monuments, slopes, caves, mountain passes, buildings...)
- location (via x,y coordinate)
- quality
- name
We provide your with
- title
- description
- picture
- characteristics
- themes
- More Info
How?
Using our webservices: (read more about it here).
5. Allow the editing of recorded routes on your website (or ours) using the RoutePlanner
Once a route is recorded and available in the RouteYou-platform, a user can edit his/her route to do the follwing
- clean up detours or errors
- make new versions with small differences based a recorded field track
- combine your route with POIs via the POI-PUSH
How?
Using our RoutePlanner: (read more about it here).
Using route RoutePlanner Plugin: (read more about it here).
6. Allow your users to create a route from scratch on your website using the RoutePlanner (or ours)
Your users can create their own route. See above.
7. Record MultiMedia (MM) and send to RouteYou for later use
Record a picture, sound or video and send to RouteYou for later use. We integrate it with a location.
How?
Using our webservices: (read more about it here).
8. Record extra attributes along the track such as heart beat,...
You can also record extra attributes along the track such as e.g. the heart beat. We link it to the position and display it in the RouteViewer (see below).
How?
Using our webservices: (read more about it here).
Using our RouteViewer: (read more about it here)
9. Display a route and extra attributes on your (mobile) website with the RouteViewer
Using the RouteViewer plugin, it is very easy to show a route in your own website and/or mobile website. There are many options to tune the RouteViewer to your liking. The RouteViewer allows to display height info on the profile, but also many other attributes you would like to show, such as heart beat, cadans,...
How?
Using our RouteViewer: (read more about it here)
10. Display a set of routes on your (mobile) website with the MapSearch
The MapSearch allows to display a set of routes, based on a selection your define. Using the MapSearch plugin, it is very easy to build it in in your (mobile) website.
How?
Use our MapSearch plugin: (read more about it here).
Take it a step further: Professional Services
Professional services are those set of services provided by RouteYou for the advanced users/organizations (in addition to the free tools, the Premium Account and the Pro Account). This category of services allows you to transform your tourist and recreational content so it can be exposed via the RouteYou-websites (http://www.routeyou.com, http://m.routeyou.com), but also on your website or applications using RouteYou-tools such as Widgets and Web services.
It covers the following:
- SW-tools: SW-tools: Widgets and plugins and Web services
- Data-engineering
- SW-engineering