AtlasBookTM
AtlasBook Navigator turns GPS-enabled mobile phones into powerful personal navigation devices. Subscribers can obtain constantly updated real time turn-by-turn driving and walking directions, maps, business and Points of Interest (POI)directories, film and event info, traffic conditions, speed cameras, fuel prices, and weather any time from anywhere.
AtlasBook Navigator's award-winning location-based services are built on a scalable platform that delivers location-aware content from different sources. Users can pinpoint their location and confidently plot their next move, whether traveling across town or across the country.
Benefits
- Announces turn-by-turn navigation instructions and reminders through out the trip, down to the proper side of the road location, to make it easier to get just where you need to go.
- Creates unique pedestrian routes that utilize sidewalks, overhead walkways, stairs, escalators and pathways to guide you on the most direct route.
- Personalization enables you to define preferences and favorites that are important to you and customize your route based on your driving patterns.
- Incorporates strategic, time-relevant content through out the application that enhances the decision making process. From traffic or speed cameras, to films and events or even weather or gas prices, this information is updated continuously and daily to provide the latest information available.
- Shares favorite locations with personalized messages with anyone via SMS. Plus, the special notification enables other subscribers to easily launch the application and navigate with a single click.
- Synchronizes with the companion website for both favorite and recent searches to assist in planning travel itineraries from the convenience of your PC.
Features
Navigation
- Facilitates an on-foot experience with detailed step-by-step text and audible walking instructions when using pedestrian mode.
- Calculates and displays the optimal route, including an overview map of the entire route and a detailed trip summary.
- Estimates more accurate time of arrival by incorporating current and historical traffic conditions.
- Presents clear turn-by-turn 3D maps of the route and maneuvers to guide the user towards the destination, while monitoring traffic congestion levels.
- Notifies the user via voice prompts of the upcoming turn and automatically reroutes if the user misses a turn.
- Previews for all of upcoming maneuvers are available through look ahead screens that enable the user to listen to all announcements in advance.
- Enables the user to reroute around traffic congestion or specific roads with the detour option.
Local Search
- Easily find nearby restaurants, bars, fuel stations (including prices), ATMs, film show times and cinemas, nightlife, hotels, hospitals, and other POIs via access to a database of millions of locations.
- Quickly search via an optimized interface by entering just the first few letters to call up favorite locations and recent searches.
Films & Events
- Displays show times, critic's ratings, and other details for films, concerts, plays and other social events around the user's GPS location or any other location.
- Provides single click navigation to the cinema or the event venue, plus enables the user to search for local parking, restaurants, ATMs or other POIs in the area.
Place Messaging
- Receives messages of geo-coded places from other mobile phones, as well as a companion LBS website and with a single click by the user, gets a route to the location or a map of the location.
- Enables users to add an optional greeting such as the meeting time as they send the location information to others who may be joining. Place Messages sent during navigation include an ETA as the default greeting.
- Stores Places in recent searches making them available for quick future retrieval.
Maps, Traffic, and Weather
- Quickly displays maps of an address, airport, POI or one of your Favorite places.
- Accurately pinpoints the current location, maps every turn of a trip, and tracks the progress.
- Continually updates local traffic conditions on a map, including traffic incidents.
- Dynamically shows current and forecasted weather information for any location.
Interface with Other Applications
- Using the appropriate APIs, third-party developers can interface their application to a branded version of AtlasBook Navigator, enabling users to navigate to, map or search for a POI around addresses in other applications.
- Using the NAVBuilder SDK, other applications can provide navigation, local search, and mapping sessions within their own application.
AtlasBook Navigator Website and Synchronization
- A customized AtlasBook Navigator website allows users to search for points of interest, view locations on a map and plan their trip.
- Recent Searches and Favorites folders on the AtlasBook Navigator website can be synchronized with the same folders on an AtlasBook Navigator mobile phone.