In this tutorial we take you on a step by step course to integrate the MapTrip Truck navigation interface into your own application. The tutorial consists of multiple lessons which build upon each other and take you through the process of building an app that remote controls MapTrip.
The article explains, how the estimated time of arrival (ETA) is calculated, how it takes live traffic information into account and how we use big data to improve our calculation.
Julia from our sales team has created a how to video playlist explaining the most important features of our MapTrip Truck navigation app.
In many use cases, it is necessary to additionally display information from your own app to the driver during navigation. For this purpose, MapTrip has a screen sharing setting.
A customer contacted us and asked if he could integrate our GPS navigation app MapTrip in his Ionic app. His app manages a list of addresses which a truck needs to visit in a given order. We did a little bit of research and then gave our trainee Hendrik the task of building a demo app.
Are you looking for a truck navigation and a traffic app? Why not try MapTrip Truck. It combines both.
For our truck GPS nav MapTrip Truck, we looked for the best data on truck parking. We looked at data from TomTom and Here, as well as trying out a whole range of apps.
Using Intents it is very easy to start MapTrip navigation from your own app. In the video we explain a demo application that we provide in our GitHub account.
We show how a navigation system with its voice helps a driver to master difficult driving tasks, e.g. snow clearing or waste disposal.