PlaceLogic for Developer Networks

Easily add LI and LBS functionality to your APIs using the PlaceLogic Platform

Enable your developer community

By incorporating the PlaceLogic platform into your service offering, you can extend your APIs or SDK with powerful location intelligence (LI) and location-based services (LBS) functionality. Our scalable, high-performance platform lets your developer community add powerful new features without specialized technical knowledge, and without having to gather and convert location data.

By adding PlaceLogic's functionality to your APIs, your developer can:

Add robust Location Intelligence and Location-based Services
Leverage Web 2.0-style knowledge collaboration
Avoid training or outsourcing to specialists
Rapidly deploy with minimal resources
Build and test applications free, and deploy non-commercial apps free (subject to usage limits; commercial apps require Deployment license).

Or upgarde to Premium edition for even more capacity, including instant deployment of commercial apps.

PlaceLogic Platform Components

The PlaceLogic Platform offers a complete set of tools and services required to enable your developer community. Platform components include:

REST-based services
- Data
  - Create and manage location data
  - Import from Shapefiles, XML, KML, CSV and more
  - Process on-demand data from 3rd-party web services
  - Access to wide array of location data
    - Community-driven data
    - Business listings
    - Geographic and demographic data
- Analysis
  - Proximity searches ("Find-nearby")
  - Search and rank
  - Patent-pending "LISRA" algorithm scores and ranks locations based on multiple, weighted criteria
  - Large set of functions for spatial analysis and transformation
SDKs
- JavaScript Library - for desktop and mobile browser apps
  - Convenience methods for calling REST services
  - Visualize data and results using map providers like Google, Yahoo, Virtual Earth, WMS
- Java SDK
- iPhone SDK
- Android SDK
Developer Portal
- Management Console
- REST service editor
- Documentation
- Blogs, discussions
- Downloads (SDKs, etc.)

Editions

PlaceLogic for Developer Networks is available in two editions:

Standard
- Includes essential features to add LI to apps
- Non-commercial applications only, branded PlaceLogic
- Limited to 1,000 transactions/day/developer,
- 3 apps per developer
- Base data, custom data
Premium
- Higher transaction volume
- Customer Support
- Comprehensive set of features
- Commercial applications
- Premium data