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5 Ways Real-Time Location Data Is Transforming Retail

In retail, timing is everything. Mapify gives you a real-time view of what’s happening across your stores, deliveries, and customer journeys. See how live data can help you work smarter and deliver better experiences.

App development

JUNITEC builds a Real-Time Location App with Mapify

JUNITEC members explored Mapify’s no-code platform to build real-time maps using live data from Helsinki in a workshop focused on smart city challenges.

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4 Years of Mapify: Milestones that mapped our Growth

As Mapify celebrates its 4th anniversary, we reflect on key achievements that showcase our evolution. This post dives into how these partnerships, solutions, and breakthroughs have shaped Mapify’s journey and hint at our ambitious path forward.

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Build Real-Time Location Apps with Mapify

"Build real-time location apps with Mapify. The article explores real-world use cases, from public transit tracking to geofencing and logistics monitoring.

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Innovations from CES 2025: Insights from Our Team

CES 2025 showcased groundbreaking innovations shaping a sustainable, connected, and intelligent future. Discover insights from our team!

Just for fun

Elevate People’s Holiday Experiences with Mapify’s Interactive Maps

Bring holiday magic to life with Mapify! From sparkling light trails to cozy markets, create seamless festive experiences with smart tools and real-time updates.

Just for fun

From Sci-Fi to Reality: The Technology inside today’s Smart Helmets

Discover the innovative technology behind today’s smart helmets, featuring crash detection, 360° visibility, voice commands, and advanced displays, perfect for tech-savvy riders and racing enthusiasts alike.

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Mapify Makes Your Halloween a Real-Time Adventure

Mapify turns Halloween into a candy-finding mission! Track top treat spots, steer clear of empty bowls, and conquer the spookiest streets all in real time.

Use cases

How Mapify is transforming emergency response for Cívicos Bogotá

Discover how APCV improved emergency response with Mapify by streamlining their workflows, volunteer coordination, and incident tracking.

App development

Top 5 Features of Mapify you didn’t know about

Unlock Mapify's advanced location intelligence. Discover 5 features you didn't know about that can transform your business operations.

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5 Electric Cars You Need To Know

EVs are shaking up the automotive world with their sustainable, high-performance features. Here’s a roundup of five electric cars that are making waves.

App development

Create a simple no-code application to manage bikes in real time

How to create a simple web application to process and display GBFS data in real time using Mapify

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Mapify at Google Cloud Day Lisbon 2024

Join us at Google Cloud Day on June 27th in Estoril to see how Mapify is democratizing location intelligence. Discover our latest features, live demos, and client success stories.

App development

3 Easy ways to simulate sensor data using Mapify

Discover how Mapify can streamline your project's early stages by simulating data inputs from sensors, devices and gateways without the need for physical devices.

App development

How IT Consulting Companies Can Sell Mapify

Discover how Mapify can enhance your IT consulting company with advanced location intelligence capabilities. Learn how to sell and integrate Mapify, offering tailored, scalable, and cost-efficient solutions.

Use cases

Display environmental sensor data in 5 steps using Mapify and Sensor.Community

See environmental data on a map! We show how to use Mapify's no-code platform to process and visualize live sensor data from Sensor.Community. Build interactive environmental data maps in minutes, with zero coding required.

Monitoring and analytics

Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Dashboard with Google Looker Studio and Mapify

Visualize live data from Barcelona's electric vehicle charging stations and create comprehensive dashboards and reports with the help of Mapify's API and Google Looker Studio.

Monitoring and analytics

Data Visualization in under 5 minutes using Mapify's Connector for Google Looker Studio

Unlock a world of data reporting and visualization possibilities for your Dataset with Mapify's Google Looker Studio Connector.

Use cases

Preserving biodiversity by mapping habitats and conservation efforts with Mapify

Mapify can play a vital role in biodiversity conservation by enabling precise mapping, habitat analysis, species monitoring, climate-resilient planning and community engagement initiatives.

Just for fun

What Christmas would be like if Santa used Mapify

Mapify's real-time updates, route optimization, and data-driven insights can elevate Santa's magical journey.

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Leverage Google Maps Air Quality API with Mapify

Learn how to visualize real-time air quality data, monitor main pollutants, and access health recommendations without writing any code.

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Real-time vehicle and cargo tracking using Mapify

Improve logistics and supply chain management by providing real-time vehicle and cargo tracking, sensor value alerts, and parking slot availability.

News

Mapify Product Update Q3 2023

New features include Google Traffic Layer support, Bulk Dataset Update workflow node and a new version of our beloved Mapify Apps.

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Mapify team is heading to Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona

We are visiting the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona from November 7th to 9th, the globe's most significant event dedicated to urban innovation.

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Top 5 Open Data Repositories from Cities

Open data from cities can be used to create new and innovative solutions to improve people's lives. In this article we highlight New York City, Helsinki, London, Barcelona and Santander.

Use cases

Create a simple web application to display Waze traffic alerts without any code

Mapify makes it easy to display real-time Waze traffic alerts on a map, in just a few minutes, without any code.

News

Master's in Internet of Things (IoT) at IPBeja signs protocol with Mapify

IPBeja will benefit from Mapify's capabilities for the development of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions.

App development

How Mapify's location intelligence and no-code development capabilities save you time

Discover how to enhance efficiency and revolutionalize web development using Mapify's no-code approach.

Use cases

Leveraging IoT sensors and Mapify for real-time store insights

IoT sensors have paved the way for a new era of retail, improving customer experience while also saving companies money.

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Mapify at Google Cloud Day Lisbon '23

Google Cloud Day Lisbon happened on June 22nd at Centro de Congressos do Estoril. Find keynotes and other sessions from industry experts.

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Monitor your IoT indoor Zigbee devices with Mapify

Mapify can also be an excellent choice for many IoT solutions dealing with buildings and indoor sensor data.

Use cases

The Role of IoT in Micromobility Vehicle Management

IoT has become fundamental for the effective management of micromobility vehicles in cities and Mapify is able to help you excel at it.

Monitoring and analytics

5 reasons why you need real-time data to manage your business

Combine real-time data with map visualization, alerts, and task automation and you've got yourself a very powerful tool.

Use cases

Automating agriculture workflows with Mapify

With Mapify Workflows, a tomato processing company was able to see a real-time view of all their operations.

App development

Mapify is perfect for handling data from wearables

Send your wearables data to Mapify and display it in real-time on a map. We'll show you how with a Garmin device.

App development

What does Mapify do? All questions answered

Find answers to the most common questions related to Mapify and learn what makes our software so appealing.

Monitoring and analytics

Google IoT Core is shutting down. Mapify can help you.

Google IoT Core is retiring and you need an alternative. Let's explain why Mapify could be an option for your IoT cloud needs.

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Mapify is visiting IOT Solutions World Congress Barcelona 2023

Mapify will debut our IoT device capabilities at IOT Solutions World Congress in Barcelona from January 31st - February 2nd.

Maps

6 Easy steps to display your real-time data on a map using Mapify

Creating a map with real-time data takes only a few minutes and you don't even have to code.

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How To Style your map layers in Mapify

Mapify allows you to style your layer data according to the values of attributes, which will allow you to present amazing location data visualizations to your users.

Use cases

Utility companies, protect your assets and your workers using Mapify

Mapify is a reliable real-time platform that handles millions of messages from IoT devices like gas flow sensors and irrigation controllers.

App development

Create amazing location-based geomarketing solutions with Mapify

Reach customers at the “right time, right place, right moment” and set up custom advertising targeting rules with no-code.

App development

Build your environment and sustainability web app in one day

Find out how Mapify can help build pro-environment solutions such as an app with an air quality index in real-time.

Use cases

The metaverse will need geospatial experts

Geospatial tech, standards and knowledge will be the base of the metaverse. Simultaneously, the metaverse will also transform geospatial.

App development

Getting started with Mapify

Learn how to create your first layer in Mapify, a location intelligence platform that helps you visualize and analyze your data.

Maps

Customise Mapify Layers with Data Filters

Mapify Data Filters allow you to define which data is shown in each of your layers, regardless of the full data available in the associated Dataset.

Use cases

5 IoT Wearables You Need To Know About

Wearables are exciting to us because of their potential in the location intelligence ecosystem. These are our favorites!

Use cases

Mapify has a lot to offer to smart cities

With our software and IoT, cities can quickly develop solutions to respond to citizens' needs.

Monitoring and analytics

Monitoring Mapify analytics with Grafana

Before Grafana, our analytics consisted of Google analytics. Now we have application analytics such as queue size and messages in progress.

Just for fun

5 Urban Micromobility Vehicles You Need To Know

All micromobility vehicles are motorized, low speed and small sized. We compiled a list of the coolest ones.

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Mapify Establishes A Partnership With NOVA IMS

Mapify signed a partnership with NOVA IMS to provide free access to all professors and students involved in NOVA Cidade: Urban Analytics Lab

Just for fun

Mapping The Coolest IoT Companies In The World

We mapped the coolest IoT companies in the world, from healthcare to agriculture, manufacturing and retail.

Monitoring and analytics

Real-time IoT data from Mapify to BigQuery

Step-by-step guide on how to build a solution in which Mapify handles real-time IoT sensor data and streams it to BigQuery.

App development

How Mapify uses the Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud provides Mapify with great performance, scalability and extreme resilience with little to no downtime.

Just for fun

50 Pride Parades Around The World 🌎 2025 Map

Mapify is committed to the LGBTQIA+ community and since our core is location and data, we created a worldwide map with 50 pride parades.

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How To Render data clusters in Mapify

Analyzing large sets of data that require a geospatial representation is easy when you use clusters.

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Mapify is now 1-year-old 🎉

This month marks 1 year of democratizing no-code real-time location intelligence.

Use cases

Processing real-time geospatial and IoT data in Smart Cities can be easy

Mapify visited Geospatial World Forum 2022 and explained how we can improve smart cities through location intelligence.

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How Mapify uses the Google Maps Platform

Mapify leverages Google Maps Platform allowing you to create better experiences for your users in an easy and fast way.

Use cases

How Mapify can empower tourism | Algarve Tech Hub Summit

Back to Algarve for Algarve Tech Hub Summit. Sandro Batista spoke about how Mapify can help cities with tourism and hospitality.

Maps

How To Create your first map in Mapify

Quickly and easily share your maps and geospatial data in real-time as stand-alone web applications without writing any code!

News

Mapify free subscriptions and special deals for Web Summit attendees

Web Summit 2021 returns to Lisbon and we've got special Mapify deals for all attendees.

App development

No code geofencing solution in five minutes with Mapify

Create a simple geofencing process to include in your own solution, without requiring you to write any code.

Monitoring and analytics

Build a simple but effective IoT monitoring solution with ZigBee devices and Mapify

Use regular ZigBee connected devices and Mapify Workflows to build a simple but effective Internet Of Things monitoring solution.

App development

Simulate IoT real time messages with Mapify Data Feed Simulator

Simulate a moving vehicle’s Data Feed and quickly and easily setup and configure your own tracking solution without writing any code.

Maps

How To Upload your GIS data to Mapify and edit it in your browser

Learn how to use Mapify Editor to edit your spatial data online in seconds with just a few clicks of the mouse.

App development

Creating an Angular application with Mapify and Google Maps

Create an angular application, in a few steps, which will render a map using Mapify.