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Cellfind opts for MapIT mapping and technology
Cellfind, a leading local provider of location-based applications and services to the mobile market in South Africa has concluded to use MapIT’s enriched map data and world-class web-mapping technology. Cellfind Managing Director, Jacques Swanepoel said the company chose MapIT as their key supplier after a strict evaluation of local and international mapping companies. “System stability and mapping accuracy are key factors for our products and services, especially if you look at the nature of the value added services we provide to MTN and Vodacom,” said Swanepoel. “MapIT provide a comprehensive service greatly enabling our business which is key for future growth.” Etienne Louw, Managing Director of MapIT, said Cellfind’s decision to source data and technology directly from MapIT emphasised the rapidly changing nature of the web and mobile environment. “We recently re-positioned … Read entire article »
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Mapping – so much more than maps
If technological innovation ever existed on the evolving edges of human ingenuity, here‟s proof. Less than a decade ago a digital map offered us a graphic representation of the landscape and turn-by-turn navigation. Today, „intelligent‟ maps, feeding off „live‟ incoming data, issue traffic warnings while scanning the digital environment on a smartphone, a personal navigation device or your desktop PC. Here‟s an example. Your wife is driving home on a Friday afternoon through congested traffic on the R21 west of Johannesburg. A warning light flicks on. The engine splutters. Pulling up, she taps the screen of her TomTom LIVE personal navigator. In seconds, the TomTom device sends her geographic co-ordinates to your TomTom LIVE device. The device, no longer merely a „direction finding tool,‟ connects to a real-time stream of … Read entire article »
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MarketScope and Healthcare applications
South Africa‟s MapIT, a company which is at the forefront of digital mapping in Sub-Saharan Africa powering the next generation of location enabled technologies, says there are huge benefits for businesses, especially in the health care sector, to use spatial awareness tools and GPS technology. MapIT Managing Director, Ray Wilkinson, says “It makes enormous business sense in our day and age to use spatial awareness tools and GPS technology. We saw the advantages from the beginning when we first conceptualised and then launched MarketScope onto the local market. And since then, we‟ve been proved right. The number of MarketScope applications used by business to optimise service and reduce costs has literally grown month by month.” MapIT recently released an enhanced four-module enterprise version of MarketScope (version 2.0) onto the local market. The … Read entire article »
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