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Graticule PlaceNameFinda Application

The PlaceNameFinda application finds the name of a location given its Latitude and Longitude coordinates. Although this sounds like a relatively simple tast, it involves considerable complexity not least because several places have the same or similar names and a given point location specified by Longitude and Latitude coordinates rarely coincides with a names place on a map. The application is being used in database management systems and as a stand along application by taxi, haulage and coach businesses in the UK.

Benefits

  • Lets you improve the quality of service to customers.
  • Lets you improve the efficiency of your business by unambiguous specification of locations
  • Lets businesses reduce unneccessary travel and costs of labour,assets and fuel.
  • Lets you transform Longitude and Latitude coordinates into place names in the UK
  • Lets you process thousands of Longitude and Latitude coordinates quickly, efficiently and largely unambiguously.
  • Lets you track where an asset has been to the nearest street address in the UK.
  • Lets you check where your employees have been in your company vehicles 24/7.
  • Lets you process thousands of records per minute depending to a large extent on the hardware platform being used.

The PlaceNameFinda application lets you check where your business assets are to the nearest street address in the UK on a continual or sample basis. For an individual asset such as a car, coach or truck, the PlaceNameFinda application returns the name of the nearest town, county, region, country and continent.


Technical Information

  • Computers running Windows XP, Vista, or 7
  • Recommend 2GHz processor and 512MB RAM
  • Requires 10MB of hard disk space - depends on volume of data to process

Licences

  • Graticule licences the PlaceNameFinda application for use with vector map and postcode data.
  • Graticule supplies its PlaceFinda application with Manual, map and postcode data.
  • Annual server licence includes 30 days of technical support.