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cityscouter
cityscouter.com offline travel guides for the iPod, iPhone and iPad let you navigate your chosen city without the need for an internet connection, saving you expensive roaming fees. With information on hundreds of points of interest, as...
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CloudMade Services: StyleEditor
Category: Travel
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Bongo
Category: Games
CloudMade services used: Environmental Data services
This is an example of a game where consumer brands have been made a part of the game to increase revenue for the developer and add more fun for players. Find more about Sponsored Locations here.
CloudMade's Sponsored Locations allow developers to monetize the users who don't pay for in-game items.
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Puzzle Your World
Category: Games
CloudMade services used: Environmental Data services, Hyper-local Leaderboards, Mapsafe
Want a puzzle game with endless new levels and environments? Puzzle Your World is a fun puzzle game where the game play changes based on what is around you. Play with balloons in the city part in the morning and cookies and coffee cups when you enjoy your afternoon snack in your local café. This will quickly become the game you just have to try every time you’re a in a new place, you never know what fancy graphics, challenging levels and bonus items will be released next time your find a place to play.
We would like to help you get started on location enabled games using CloudMade game services for a better UX and LBA for increased monetization.
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GeoGuide 3D
Category: Navigation
CloudMade services used: Map Tiles, Specialist Tools
GeoGuide 3D offers worldwide 3D maps for orientation and track recording. All places and street names are offline available as well as all natural POIs. GeoGuide 3D is the only app that allows map downloading of every area worldwide - without any extra fees. Enjoy a full blown, retina-rendered map, oriented by compass or showing north up. The 3D maps can also be used for geocaching by defining waypoint coordinates. Live address search gets you to any place google knows about.
We use CloudMade tools because of their simple access, reliability and the speed at which maps are provided. Not to forget the 24-hour support!
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Murder in Your City
Category: Games
CloudMade services used: StyleEditor, Content Cloud, LBA
A vicious murder has been committed in your city! You have to navigate clues, witnesses and suspects in the streets of your local city. You can either travel around town in real life assisted by real-time navigation or you can take virtual cab rides to find the next clue, witness or suspect. Murder in the city allows interaction with other players, both your friends or other players that might have your next clue. This game idea could be your next location enabled game, just let us know and the idea can be yours.
We would like to help you get started on location enabled games using CloudMade game services for a better UX and LBA for increased monetization.
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Movimatica
Category: Navigation
CloudMade services used: iPhone SDK
Movimatica is an iOS application to track and secure personal vehicles or whole fleets. Once a tracking device has been installed on the asset, the end user can use Movimatica to locate the vehicle and query its operating parameters, like speed, temperature, engine status and alarms.
CloudMade allowed us to give our customer the necessary mapping engine and licensing terms. Never a mapping service has been so flexible!
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Meeting Point
Category: Navigation
CloudMade services used: Geocoding, iPhone SDK
Meeting Point is an iOS application that helps to find your current location (GPS) and share it with your friends by email. Simple as 1-2-3: 1. Find or set your location on maps 2. Select or write a message 3. Send email with a screenshot
It's a pleasure to see how rapidly CloudMade has developed during the last 2 years of our application’s existence.
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Expense Tool
Category: Finance
CloudMade services used: Geocoding
Expense Tool is an iOS Application to collect and organize your own and shared expenses. Interesting is the combination of expenses with geocoding and attachment of receipt/photo. The expenses can be listed, shown on a map, exported by email and printed. And if more than one person is part of an expense set, you get a summary showing the total, the average and the balance of the shared expenses.
CloudMade perfectly adds a missing feature to the iOS SDK: Forward Geocoding.
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oMaps
Category: Navigation
CloudMade services used: iPhone SDK
oMaps lets you save maps on your iPhone and iPod Touch and then access them even without an Internet connection. You can store maps (including inward zoom levels) on your device for any area in the world. - Ideal for travelers: no more roaming fees while your are abroad. - No need anymore to buy preloaded maps for every city you want to visit. - Finally a full maps application for the iPod Touch.
CloudMade provides simple and powerful tools to include maps features into my app. Plus: Customer service and developers are fast and reliable.
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bliin
Category: Social Networking
CloudMade services used: StyleEditor, Web Maps Studio
bliin lets you share your live location stream across the world in real-time via your phone and over the web, without the fuzz of checking in to a location manually … you’re simply Always There. You can share geo-tagged photos and videos instantly, as you capture them. You can record trips for playback later. Because bliin is browser based, any PC or handset will do - Anytime, Anywhere, Anyone!
Because CloudMade maps are easy!
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GayCities
Category: Travel
CloudMade services used: StyleEditor, iPhone SDK
Covering 185 cities worldwide, instantly find what people have to say about nearby gay bars, restaurants, shops, and more.
Being part of CloudMade's developer community helped take our location app from an idea to reality in over 185 cities.
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iGo Bielefeld
Category: Travel
CloudMade services used: StyleEditor, iPhone SDK
iGo Bielefeld is the first city guide for Bielefeld available as an app. The audio guide leads to 35 stations within Bielefeld's historic city center and the towns landmark castle „Sparrenburg“. Churches, ancient buildings or the beginnings of Dr. Oetker company - almost 2 hours of audio provide lots of information. All spoken text is also available for reading. More than 100 images give additional impressions. With map, positioning and a „what‘s nearby“ functionality you‘ll never get lost on this tour.
I found it extremely straightforward to implement the needed mapping functionality, especially an offline version!
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cityscouter
Category: Travel
CloudMade services used: StyleEditor
cityscouter.com offline travel guides for the iPod, iPhone and iPad let you navigate your chosen city without the need for an internet connection, saving you expensive roaming fees. With information on hundreds of points of interest, as well as updatable events, detailed transport information and Cloudmade maps, you're sure to get the most out of your travels. Visit www.cityscouter.com for more details.
CloudMade has made it easy for us to customize and tailor our maps to suit our customer's needs.
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GPS Tracker Tool
Category: Navigation
CloudMade services used: Map Tiles, StyleEditor
SMS-operated GPS trackers are very small, affordable and can be used for a range of applications: theft protection for cars, monitoring children or fleet management. There is no need for a central server - so you get a maximum of privacy without any fixed costs. The "GPS Tracker Tool" is made for anyone who wants to add user-friendliness to operating these trackers.
We needed both a professional and unrestricted service to access OSM based data. It was easy to decide on CloudMade and its rich set of APIs.
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Parking Tracker
Category: Productivity
CloudMade services used: Map Tiles, StyleEditor
With the Parking Tracker app you never forget where you parked your car. To save the parking position you simply press a button. Later when you want to find your car again its location is displayed on a map as well as your own location. The upcoming release enhances the app to be a location-based Parking Assistant with integrated m-parking support based on your geographic location. The app is currently available for Android, Java ME, and Blackberry.
The CloudMade Tiles API enabled us to build our own maps framework that we use on platforms like BlackBerry, Android, and Java ME.
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GPSmyCity
Category: Travel
CloudMade services used: Map Tiles, StyleEditor
GPSmyCity.com publishes self-guided city walks on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. With over 4,000 walking tours available - spanning over 450 cities worldwide - GPSmyCity.com is the largest travel portal of its kind. Each walking tour offers accurate turn-by-turn directions to famous attractions, monuments and interesting sights as well as hidden gems; as if you had brought along a local guide. GPSmyCity.com's city walks make the traditional bus tours obsolete.
Thanks to CloudMade, we offer our customers offline city maps so they do not have to pay roaming fees when they travel to foreign countries
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TrailBlazer Pro
Category: Navigation
CloudMade services used: Map Tiles
TrailBlazer Pro with the Live Tracking Service allows you to track the location of those most important to you. Follow the progress of friends on a fun-run, monitor your family member's evening walk using your iPhone or a web browser on your Mac, PC, or iPad. TrailBlazer Pro is also the ultimate fitness app for your iPhone. Whether you walk, jog, cycle, hike, or drive, TrailBlazer Pro tracks your speed and location and records your path. You can even compete against your friends.
CloudMade was used for TrailBlazer Pro as it allows individual tile access and provides a range of map styles.
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SmartCITY
Category: Travel
CloudMade services used: Map Tiles, Static Maps, StyleEditor, iPhone SDK
With up to 900 points of interest rated by the Guides Gallimard teams, an interactive map in your pocket to visit Paris, London, Venice, Rome: try SmartCITY, the travel application for SmartTRAVELLERS! By combining the publishing knowledge of the Guides Gallimard with the technological know how of the multimedia producer Latitude Sedona, SmartCITY offers a one of a kind interactive urban guide enabling you to discover all the most interesting places of famous european towns.
Thanks to CloudMade, the maps built-in to our apps could be customised to retrieve the look from the original Gallimard paper guides
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ViewRanger GPS
Category: Navigation
CloudMade services used: Map Tiles
ViewRanger GPS provides the complete smartphone navigation solution for outdoor sports enthusiasts and works on Symbian, Android and Apple iOS devices. With access to a range of mapping layers from street, terrain to aerial photos, users can create routes to follow, view their mapped location and record tracks and statistics. The App utilises network connectivity to provide real-time location sharing and access to downloadable expert guided routes packed with text, photos, and even audio/video content.
CloudMade tools have allowed ViewRanger GPS to become more feature rich, globally available and affordable through the app stores
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Next Time
Category: Productivity
CloudMade services used: Geocoding, Map Tiles
Next Time is a location-centric reminder app for iPhone. Next Time allows you to search anywhere in the world for locations to add to your locations list. Then, through an innovative one-click interface, you can set reminders for your locations. While utilizing advanced battery-saving innovations, Next Time will run in the background to alert you of your reminders the next time you’re at the location.
CloudMade iPhone SDK allowed me to integrate location search effectively and efficiently. CloudMade gives me extensive advantage over competing apps
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Fahrtenbuch
Category: Business
CloudMade services used: Routing
The first Driver's Log with full iCal integration! Fahrtenbuch, the #1 choice "driver's log" in Germany, is essential for anyone who needs to track mileage for tax deduction or reimbursement. The word "Fahrtenbuch" in Germany stands for pain in the a** for everyone who needs to track it on paper - but with our app it's fun!
We are using CloudMade because it's a great product with a great API, and it is the only product with JSON route calculation feature.
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PD Maps
Category: Navigation
CloudMade services used: Map Tiles, Routing
PD Maps Worldwide Edition is a free turn-by-turn navigator with worldwide coverage. It provides latest maps from all major map providers. Also it provides location based information: traffic, weather, search, satellite images, shots. 5 different routing engines with route bird-view. Offline usage possible. iPad compatible.
CloudMade map is excellent source as it provides really fresh and accurate data round the Globe
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Galileo Offline Maps
Category: Navigation
CloudMade services used: Geocoding, Routing, StyleEditor
The first iPhone/iPad app in the AppStore that allows users to import maps from computer. That means you can pre-generate a full map for a certain area and transfer it to the app through iTunes. Free version includes caching map feature - you can browse online maps within the app and it caches the map tiles you have viewed to your device, so you can view this map later being in offline mode. 5 attractive CloudMade map styles are available for choice.
CloudMade provides with plenty of stylish and good-looking map styles which please even the most fastidious users
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OutFront
Category: Healthcare and Fitness
CloudMade services used: Map Tiles, Static Maps, iPhone SDK
OutFront, by Map My Tracks, turns your iPhone into a high performance all-sport performance GPS computer that's easy and fun to track your bike rides or runs. OutFront measures speed, pace, calories burned, duration, elevation gain/loss and much more for each activity you do. With Facebook, Twitter and Map My Tracks integrated you can easily share your outdoor activities live on the web for friends to follow.
Using CloudMade iPhone SDK made it super easy to add maps to our iPhone app. That, and reliability make CloudMade our first choice map provider.
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iGMap
Category: Navigation
CloudMade services used: StyleEditor, Web Maps API
iGMap is a virtual GPS designed for use with the three most popular desktop flight simulators on the market, supporting Microsoft Flight Simulator X, Flight Simulator 2004 and X-Plane 9 by Laminar Research. It provides a wireless hand-held moving map display to aid navigation, especially useful on VFR flights, while saving valuable screen real-estate on the desktop by using the iOS device to display the current position of the aircraft. Flight plan display and aeronautical charts are also included.
CloudMade services allow a small company to deliver cutting edge mapping solutions while targeting a niche market - without the prohibitive cost
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Bike Hub
Category: Navigation
CloudMade services used: Map Tiles, iPhone SDK
The Bike Hub app, produced for the Bicycle Association and the Association of Cycle Traders, is a 'satnav for cyclists'. It displays clever short-cuts and bicycle-friendly routes on OpenCycleMap, cutting journey times for many users. It also has a 'bike shop finder' button, calling up UK bike shops within a six mile radius of an iPhone.The next update for the app adds full turn-by-turn directions and a synthetic voice.
Cloudmade API provides the slippy maps within the app and helps to fast-track the development of all the map interactions that users have
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Scout
Category: Navigation
CloudMade services used: Geocoding, Map Tiles, Static Maps, StyleEditor
MagicMaps Scout for iPhone is your companion for outdoor activities. Make use of topographic maps for hiking adventures or check your training data with the integrated speedometer. Further you can use Scout for cycling and other activities to record your tour for subsequent analysis.
CloudMade is the best supplier of data for OpenStreetMap. We like the tools and services a lot. It complies with our high standards.
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RunSat
Category: Healthcare and Fitness
CloudMade services used: StyleEditor
RunSat is a GPS SportsTracker for Windows Mobile. Its designed for serious runners, cyclists and skaters who want to track their sporting distances and lap times. It uses big "at a glance" text and It's fully integrated with the www.runningfreeonline.com website for offline sharing and analysis.
We wanted the clearest and best maps to view on smartphones in often difficult lighting conditions. CloudMade gave us the tools to make those maps.
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A Day's Outing
Category: Travel
CloudMade services used: Geocoding, Map Tiles, Routing, StyleEditor, iPhone SDK
Looking for a quick and easy way to find local events, attractions and destinations while you are out and about with friends or family? A Day’s Outing offers a fast, mobile way to search for an array of day trip ideas and spur of the moment side trips. You can search among hundreds of thousands of outings, in locations all around the country, and find the outings that are just right for you.
We choose CloudMade because there's no other service out there that delivered the same functionality and at the same time was so easy to integrate.
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London Cycle
Category: Navigation / Reference
CloudMade services used: Routing
The London Cycle: Free Maps & Routes app has been developed to help users of the official Barclays Cycle Hire scheme, which launched on 30th July. The app is the perfect companion tool for the new service, allowing users to plan routes and locate the closest cycle stations using their iPhones, iPods and iPads when traveling in London. As Transport for London (TfL) open up more data on the service, FIPLAB Ltd plans to add live cycle counts at each station.
We chose CloudMade as it offers excellent cycling and routing directions.
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Ride The City
Category: Navigation
CloudMade services used: Mapzen, StyleEditor, Web Maps Studio, iPhone SDK
Ride the City is a bicycle routing application that helps you find a safe bike route from point A to point B in major cities. Ride the City avoids roads that aren't meant for biking and tries to steer cyclists toward routes that maximize the use of bike lanes, bike paths, greenways, and other bike-friendly streets while avoiding steep hills. The application also shows bike shops and bike rental facilities nearby, providing contact information and hours of operation.
Style Editor gave us an incredible amount of flexibility in the way we emphasize local streets vs. highways for bicyclists.
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WorldView Live
Category: Reference
CloudMade services used: Geocoding, Map Tiles
Watch live webcams worldview with an elegant, friendly and intuitive user interface. There are thousands of webcams taking pictures of places, streets, landscapes and whatever else. Providing impressive views of the world. WorldView brings the world into your pocket! Watch over 13,000 webcams from all over the world in fullscreen on your iPhone when you're connected to the Internet. Search for a specific place, for nearby webcams, or take a look at popular webcams from around the world.
The Cloudmade API provides an easy to use and reliable service which made the WorldView app even more enjoyable and fun to use
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OffMaps
Category: Navigation
CloudMade services used: Local Search, Routing, StyleEditor, iPhone SDK
OffMaps allows you to take your maps offline and search them on your iPod Touch and iPhone without an active internet connection. OffMaps lets you take your maps offline. It is the ideal companion for any iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad users user, who wants to access maps when travelling abroad (and avoid data roaming charges) and who wants to have fast access to maps at all times.
No other map provider has such open terms of service and is as reliable as CloudMade
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Trails
Category: Navigation
CloudMade services used: StyleEditor, iPhone SDK
Trails is the first GPS iPhone app that allows you to record, import and export tracks onto your iPhone or iPad. Record maps while hiking, on bike trips or while jogging directly on your iPhone. Easily import tracks and follow hikes of others!
Trails relies on CloudMade as a reliable map tile provider and also offers offline map through CloudMade.
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Gaia GPS id)
Category: Navigation
CloudMade services used: Map Tiles, Routing
Gaia GPS helps you find your way even when you aren't connected. The app provides topo and road maps, as well as other features useful for hiking, camping, biking, and other outdoor sports. Gaia GPS on Android is a port from the iPhone, and we are adding features such as waypoints and tracking this summer.
CloudMade provides phenomenal city and outdoor maps, and they are a key feature for all of our iPhone mapping apps
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VoxTrek
Category: Navigation
CloudMade services used: Geocoding, Geocoding and Geosearch, Map Tiles, Routing, StyleEditor
VoxTrek provides worldwide turn by turn GPS navigation with text to speech directions in 22 languages and speed camera detection on the iPhone and iPad. Maps and routes can be downloaded in advance for offline usage to avoid roaming charges. VoxTrek uses OpenGL to display maps smoothly in 2D/3D. VoxTrek 2.0 supports offline routing, offline street name and point of interest search using downloaded Openstreetmap data.
CloudMade provides fast and reliable worldwide routing for driving, walking and cycling based on the ever exponentially evolving OpenStreetMap data.
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OpenMaps
Category: Navigation
CloudMade services used: Geocoding and Geosearch, Routing
OpenMaps is a feature-rich, fast & easy to use map application that displays and edits open map data of OpenStreetMap.org, the free wiki world map. It has features such as a fast and smooth map interface with tappable Points of Interest (POI), compass mode, basic OpenStreetMap editing, turn-by-turn route instructions, offline map viewing, online search, in app user feedback, and many others.
We used some CloudMade web services in OpenMaps because they are based on map data from OpenStreetMap.org and OpenMaps is all about OpenStreetMap.
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DoDaDog
Category: Navigation
CloudMade services used: Web Maps Studio
DoDaDog is a social networking service for dog owners, giving a global network of support and advice but a local network of other like minded people. The DoDaDog app tracks walks and uploads them to the DoDaDog website to help you meet other people walking in your area and discover new dog friendly places nearby. POI's include vets and dog friendly places. The app presents a mobile version of the website with access to forums, videos and much more.
We chose CloudMade over MapKit to overcome licensing restrictions on real time tracking. CloudMade was also extremely easy to integrate.
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Geocaching
Category: Navigation / Reference
CloudMade services used: Map Tiles
Geocaching is a worldwide treasure hunting game where adventure seekers locate hidden containers, called geocaches, outdoors and then share their experiences online. The Geocaching iPhone app provides real-time, direct access to Geocaching.com's database of worldwide geocaches.
We chose CloudMade for simple and reliable access to OpenStreetMap
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Puntalo
Category: Reference
CloudMade services used: StyleEditor
Puntalo is a simple map based service that allows you to locate the phones of the people you love, be informed if they are not where they are supposed to be and, if so, act on it. Never lose your phone again and, if you do, send messages to the phone, or lock it and wipe it remotely even when the thief has changed the SIM card. Puntalo cannot be uninstalled except with a password, works on most hand-held devices - old and new - and is carrier independent.
CloudMade is an excellent map service and probably the best value for money currently out there.
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IVS http://www.internationalvillageshop.com
Category: Shopping
CloudMade services used: Geocoding, StyleEditor, Web Maps API
The International Village Shop is a growing network of organisations and artists who set up permanent and temporary trading places for goods that are rooted locally. The products range from horsemilksoap (Friesland/NL) to porcelain Frogbutterspoons (Upper Frankonia, Ger), Peter's Pots (Cumbria,UK), single-village rice (Toge, Japan), handmade arrows (Fanas, CH), etc. The organizations involved have worked with shop formats, trade and collaborative production for many years.
I used CloudMade tools because of the adaptable API and ability to style and use maps as part of the design concept for this project.
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Nexthamburg http://www.nexthamburg.de
Category: Reference
CloudMade services used: Map Tiles, StyleEditor
Nexthamburg is an online participation platform based in Hamburg, Germany. On the website, a collection of ideas to make Hamburg a better city can be found - and everbody is invited to participate: add their own ideas, comment, vote and update other ideas. The "Nexthamburg Navigator" displays locations on the map that users have sent from their iPhone using the "Nexthamburg App". The default "Nexthamburg map style" was created using CloudMade tools.
The CloudMade Style Editor allowed us to easily create a map style that perfectly fits to our web design.
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WaterCredit Map Explorer http://watercredit.org/map-explorer/
Category: Social and Political
CloudMade services used: Map Tiles
The WaterCredit Map Explorer shows where Water.org operates their WaterCredit microfinance program, which connects the microfinance and water and sanitation communities to scale up access to credit and capital for individual- and household-based water and sanitation needs. Along with program locations, users can view the locations of local partners, financial providers, and other global indicators, such as include poverty measures, access to clean water and sanitation, at the country and department levels.
CloudMade's well-designed, gorgeous map tiles provide a clean background in which to layer other geospatial data, and tell a better story.
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Azavea Directions http://www.azavea.com/info/directions/philadelphia/
Category: Navigation
CloudMade services used: Web Maps API
Azavea is a geospatial analysis firm specializing in location-based web and mobile application development. We used the CloudMade’s Web Maps API to create a cool little widget to show directions to both our offices in Philly and Boston on our website. The widget gives more interactivity to what would normally be a fairly boring set of directions. Users can easily zoom in the maps or get Google directions to our offices.
The CloudMade API was simple to use and well documented, allowing me to make a simple map quickly and with enough customization to match our website.
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TRAFx DataNet http://www.trafx.net/
Category: Software Tools
CloudMade services used: Geocoding, Map Tiles
TRAFx Research designs and manufactures road and trail traffic counters and sells these devices to government customers worldwide. Our tiny counters are normally installed at the side of a road or trail and count what passes by - vehicles, hikers, joggers, mountain bikers, etc. We offer the following counter types: vehicle counter, infrared trail counter, mountain bike counter, and OHV counter. Our web-based software called DataNet is used to analyze, manage, store and share data gathered with the counters.
CloudMade serves up OpenStreetMap data in a reliable, flexible, and attractive way.
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EasyTracking http://www.easytracking.nl
Category: Transportation
CloudMade services used: Map Tiles, Web Maps API
EasyTracking is one of the most straightforward web based Track and Trace solutions in the market today. It maps the location and routes of vehicles, people and assets, live as well as historical, and it reports the business usage of vehicles as required by Dutch tax laws. This unique functionality helps businesses drastically reduce administrative hassle and provides a detailed insight of the utilization of company vehicles and other valuable resources.
With CloudMade we can offer our customers highly detailed and always up to date mapping.
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Cycle Copenhagen http://www.cyclecopenhagen.dk
Category: Navigation
CloudMade services used: Web Maps API
Cycle Copenhagen - a bicycle routeplanner based on multiple preferences. The Routeplanner is build on the idea that cyclists have different preferences regarding their bicycle rides. Therefore the service is build upon a differentiation of the network, with the effect that cyclists will be able to arrange and organize routes, in sync with their personal preferences.
Simply put, Cloudmade offers the best and most flexible API of all geoweb providers.
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LOVELAND http://www.makeloveland.com
Category: Social Networking
CloudMade services used: StyleEditor, Web Maps API, Web Maps Studio
We're a social neighborhood mapping initiative to help Detroit cross the digital divide, get online, become transparent, and listen to the voices of the community. Visitors can log into a searchable, writable, parcel-based map and research public property records, report concerns, volunteer, or propose ideas for their community. Our app will also allow massive crowd sourced funding for local projects.
I chose CloudMade for our base maps because it has beautiful, customizable styles, uses OpenStreetMap data and plays well with PolyMaps.
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Create Frankfurt http://www.frankfurt-gestalten.de
Category: Social and Political
CloudMade services used: Geocoding, StyleEditor
Create Frankfurt is an open data project which offers citizens geo-referenced information. The project tracks local political decisions and motivates citizens, through public data, to connect locally and discuss how to engage to change their neighborhood, city and surroundings.
CloudMade's Style Editor allows us to create maps for specific local needs. The Geocoding API offers a great way to get latest data from OpenStreetMap
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XC Skies http://www.xcskies.com
Category: Maps
CloudMade services used: Geocoding, StyleEditor, Web Maps API
XC Skies Soaring Forecasts is an interactive web map service, helping pilots to plan routes and review soaring conditions across the planet. We rely on quality maps to overlay critical forecast parameters for decision making by pilots during competitions, world record attempts, or recreational flying.
CloudMade enables us to build highly effective ways of presenting forecast data. The Style Editor and Web Maps API are critical to our implementation.
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Southern Foodways Map http://www.southernfoodways.com/documentary/maps/index.html
Category: Reference
CloudMade services used: Routing, StyleEditor
The Southern Foodways Alliance Oral History Initiative captures and then maps the stories of Southerners who grow, create, serve, and consume food and drink. Use this interactive map to plan your own road trip to visit the places we've documented. You can search by project or just click on stars, and you can even click through to read the oral history of a place...Grab a napkin and go!
CloudMade tools and the UMap API work together seamlessly, enabling us to design elegant, highly interactive trip planning applications.
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Walkshed http://walkshed.org
Category: Reference / Education
CloudMade services used: Map Tiles, StyleEditor
Walkshed precisely and personally measures the walkability of an entire city. It analyzes actual walking distances and renders detailed heat maps of a city’s most walkable areas. Not only that, Walkshed allows users to input their personal preferences to pinpoint neighborhoods that are close to the amenities you care about most.
CloudMade is the easiest way to integrate beautiful maps based on the latest OpenStreetMap data.
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Ookaboo http://ookaboo.com/o/pictures/
Category: Reference
CloudMade services used: Web Maps API
Ookaboo uses semantic technology to amass a growing collection of public domain and creative commons images, free for commercial and non-commercial use. Photographs are indexed by precise terms, such as places, people, and species. Ookaboo organizes places with geospatial inference and displays dynamics POIs with the CloudMade Web Maps API for a fun and educational way to navigate places.
The CloudMade Web Maps API is an easy and lightweight way to display quality maps that are compatible with Ookaboo's CC-BY-SA license.
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Systematic Maps http://www.sysmaps.co.uk/
Category: Maps
CloudMade services used: Geocoding, Routing, Web Maps API
The Systematic Maps is a mapping resource website that provides eight different map types. It has a variety of added services including GPS positioning using Franson software, Skyhook Loki positioning from WiFi signals, search, routing and directions, exporting and importing GPX tracks, reverse geocoding, Wikipedia entries, geocoding, weather, Geohack links, email links and Facebook.
We used CloudMade due to the variety of maps and tools available together with the ability to integrate other services
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MTBNavi.de http://mtbnavi.de/Garmin%20GPS.html
Category: Maps
CloudMade services used: StyleEditor
MTBNavi.de offers the user ready-to-use mountainbike maps for Garmin gps devices. An online map with a special style file showing tracks in yellow and trails in red allows a preview of the possibilities OpenStreetMap offers for outdoor use. Unimportant features like roads are shown in low contrast to give a nice clean and uncluttered map layout.
Thanks to the CloudMade Style Editor I could create a map showing only the features being important for mountainbikers.
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Scribble Maps http://www.scribblemaps.com
Category: Maps
CloudMade services used: StyleEditor
Scribble Maps is the quick and easy way to create and share custom maps with scribbles, shapes, images, text and more!
CloudMade's custom map styles allowed our users to create some truly unique maps.
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Pop.u.LA.tion http://www.latimes.com/population
Category: News
CloudMade services used: Map Tiles, StyleEditor
Pop.u.LA.tion is a interactive multimedia series for the Los Angeles Times that celebrates the daily parade of character, commerce and culture of Los Angeles, CA. A new visual story is added to the on-going series on a monthly basis.
CloudMade stood out from the rest because of it's openness to developers and it's ability to create customized maps that blend into a design.
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Hollywood Walk of Fame http://hwof.com
Category: Reference/Entertainment
CloudMade services used: StyleEditor
HWOF is the definitive online guide to the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, containing accurate and up-to-date information about the stars and celebrities honored on this famous sidewalk. The site helps visitors plan their trip to Hollywood, but also acts as a guide for those who are at the Walk itself: the mobile version of the site is a fact-laden tour guide with accurate biographies, locations, and walking routes for each of the many thousands of stars featured.
CloudMade provided a unique opportunity to easily integrate our maps' cartography into our site's design and ensure great readability for mobile users
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The Startup Map http://startup-map.datalysed.com
Category: Reference
CloudMade services used: Geocoding, StyleEditor, Web Maps API
The Startup Map features entrepreneurial communities all around the world. Information on popular technology companies was processed to extract location of their offices. Adresses were then geocoded to obtain geographic coordinates and placed on the map producing clusters of entrepreneurial activity. Users can poke around the world to see who's doing what and zoom in on popular hotspots, like Silicon Valley which is by far the most startup-populated area in the world.
CloudMade allows you to easily customize look and feel of your application and makes it really simple to create visually stunning maps.
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Gmap-pedometer.com http://gmap-pedometer.com/
Category: Health and Fitness
CloudMade services used: Map Tiles
Gmap-pedometer.com allows runners, bikers, and other fitness fanatics to calculate exactly how far they go on their workouts. For those without a GPS, or those who need to plan out their route in advance to satisfy their obsessive training programs, gmap-pedometer.com is a fun and free way to figure out your distance. Millions of users since 2005 have used the site to stay in shape and achieve their goals, while waving the geo-nerd flag!
We use the HTTP Tile API because our users demand accurate maps. And, thanks to CloudMade, I can give control of the map back to my users.
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TrailRunner http://trailrunnerx.com/
Category: Health and Fitness
CloudMade services used: Routing, StyleEditor
TrailRunner is the perfect companion for outdoor runners, bikers, hikers and all those wandering under the sky. TrailRunner delivers features for mapping, route-planning and journaling of activities. The application runs on Mac OSX. With TrailRunner, users can create routes before leaving home. Depending on the target fitness device or iPhone app, planned routes can be uploaded to the device and be used as a guide along the planned session. TrailRunner also features a diary to later review and analyze activities.
OpenStreetMap is a wonderful project, and CloudMade with their simple to use API help us to bring this resource to TrailRunners wordwide.
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Drinktown http://chicago.drinktown.com/bars/map
Category: Entertainment
CloudMade services used: StyleEditor
Drinktown is the place to go to find Food and Drink Specials near you. The website is updated daily by tens of thousands of members with current daily specials. You can sort by day of the week, special type or just browse the map to find nearby deals. Currently Chicago based but expanding very soon to: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, New York City, Milwaukee and Las Vegas. Mobile applications launching soon as well.
CloudMade makes it easy to customize rich and beautiful maps and stand out from the crowd
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Geovelo http://www.geovelo.fr/
Category: Navigation
CloudMade services used: StyleEditor
Geovelo is a french route planner dedicated to cycling and based on data from OpenStreetMap. Geovelo takes into account distance and safety. It works for the cities of Paris, Nantes and Tours.
We use Cloudmade Style Editor because it can quickly and easily create customized maps
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Knapsack 2 http://outerlevel.com/knapsack/
Category: Travel
CloudMade services used: Geocoding, Web Maps Studio
Knapsack 2 is a major new version of Outer Level's personal travel planner for Mac OS X. This version adds interactive maps with street level detail and world-wide search. Knapsack allows you to lay out your travel plans, destinations, activities, and even your packing lists. You can also add in details as you travel and turn Knapsack into a trip journal.Mark all the locations you have visited around the world on your own virtual wall map and relive your life's adventures.
Our customers wanted a searchable world map with street level detail and CloudMade was the perfect solution
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Map My Tracks http://www.mapmytracks.com
Category: Healthcare and Fitness
CloudMade services used: Static Maps, StyleEditor, iPhone SDK
Map My Tracks is an outdoor social network for sports and fitness enthusiasts that makes it easy to track, review & share outdoor activities with friends & family. Map My Tracks provides a comprehensive range of tools to help better understand how your training session went and keep a central log of all your outdoor activities. A range of mobile apps lets users easily sync their activities live online for followers to watch in real-time.
The flexibility of CloudMade’s API mean that we can always deliver the maps we want
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Schooloscope http://www.schooloscope.com/
Category: Reference
CloudMade services used: StyleEditor, Web Maps API
Schooloscope is an honest, independent, straightforward guide to how your local schools are getting on. We take official Government-backed information about state schools in England and try to tease out something interesting from the dry tables of statistics - how well kids perform at school, how happy they are there. We take all that information and present it in clear English, and understandable smiling faces.
Maps are a key part of Schooloscope's identity. CloudMade Custom Map Styles gave us the flexibility and integration options we needed.
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Polymaps http://polymaps.org/
Category: Reference
CloudMade services used: Specialist Tools, StyleEditor
Polymaps is a free JavaScript library for making interactive maps in modern web browsers. Polymaps provides speedy display of multi-resolution geographic datasets with powerful dynamic styling through CSS and SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). Because Polymaps can load both image and vector data at a full range of scales, it is ideal for showing information from country level on down to states, cities, neighborhoods, and individual streets.
CloudMade is the natural choice for integrating OpenStreetMap, thanks to flexible styling, realtime provisioning and friendly licensing.
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Where Can I Live http://www.where-can-i-live.com/londonproperty
Category: Utilities
CloudMade services used: StyleEditor
"Where Can I Live" is a service for property searchers who want to look for a new home based on their commuting time to work. Users can specify criteria such as max. travel time, number of bedrooms and max. price and we show them properties that suit their needs. WCIL is currently offered in London, Madrid, Barcelona, Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, Milan and Rome.
The Style Editor allowed us to match the map color scheme to our brand, disable unimportant map features, while highlighting others.
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Ask Your Target Market http://www.askyourtargetmarket.com
Category: Reference/ Education
CloudMade services used: StyleEditor, Web Maps API
Ask Your Target Market gives you serious market research at silly prices. For those who cannot afford the money and time associated with traditional market research, AYTM is your online, self-service market research platform with a built-in U.S. consumer panel. Founded in 2008, AYTM was created to break down the cost barrier keeping targeted market research inaccessible to the vast majority of small businesses, entrepreneurs and marketers.
We are thrilled with the elegance of CloudMade maps platform.It allowed us to customize the maps to blend right in the overall experience of our app.
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Media Street http://kingsroad.co.uk/
Category: Reference
CloudMade services used: StyleEditor, Web Maps API
Media Street runs sites including kingsroad.co.uk, nottinghillgate.co.uk and fulhamroad.co.uk. It focuses on mapping local businesses – giving them their own web page and enabling users to interact with an easy-to-use local map. CloudMade enabled us to customize the look and feel of each map on Media Street site. This was important for maintaining the branding of our local sites rather than using a more generic Google map. CloudMade’s marker clustering also allows us to show businesses in a densely populated area.
Using the API from CloudMade, we’ve configured a local map for each Media Street site and have been able to customize its look and feel
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Map Your Moments http://mayomo.com/
Category: Reference
CloudMade services used: Map Tiles, StyleEditor
MaYoMo ( Map Your Moments ) is a video-centric platform for citizen journalism. There are two key features of MaYoMo. In first place that’s Virtu - a virtual continent, placed in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, which is divided to several countries, representing a virtual community behind a game, as the Second Life country. The other is the request for news. Every user can request a user generated content (video, pictures or text) for a future event like concert or conference.
We decided to use CloudMade because of the powerful styling tools and great performance.
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Oakland Crimespotting http://oakland.crimespotting.org/
Category: Reference / Education
CloudMade services used: Map Tiles, StyleEditor
Crimespotting is an interactive map of crimes and a tool for understanding crime in cities. If you hear sirens in your neighborhood, you should know why. Crimespotting makes this possible with interactive maps, e-mail updates, and RSS feeds of crimes. Crimespotting was designed and built by Stamen Design, initially as an effort to improve on the city of Oakland's out-dated official map. It was subsequently expanded to San Francisco by invitation as part of the city's DataSF program.
Cloudmade's "Pale Dawn" map style was created by Stamen ensuring data points, not roads are the primary feature of Crimespotting's map.
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Mapme.at http://mapme.at/
Category: Navigation
CloudMade services used: Geocoding, Local Search, StyleEditor, Web Maps API
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CloudMade gives developers really simple ways to use the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project.