Maps & Geography
Where everything is, in coordinates rather than in prose — and the live picture of what is moving between those places.
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The screens on this shelf
Workspace
Transport Map
Where everything is: the places, the vehicles, the routes drawn as real lines, and every shipment still out there.
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Records
Places
A place, geocoded. Held once and referenced everywhere: the same customer address appears on a hundred deliveries, and correcting it once should correct all of them.
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Records
Geofences
An area on the map that means something: a customer site, a depot yard, a low emission zone. Crossing one says the truck has arrived without anybody telephoning to ask.
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Records
Mapping Providers
Which mapping service this company uses. OpenStreetMap needs no key and no account, so the map draws on the first boot; a Google or Mapbox contract is added here.
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