Get'n Drop - Location finder in Europe

Wednesday, 10. October 2007

 
With PinPoint customers who visit your website are able to orientate in your location network quickly. You arrive in a zoom-level showing that location which is easy to reach for you by a double click in the desired area of the map. Opening hours, events, bargains, ample parking space closed of your branch and many more information get displayed clearly.


Location specific differences and information can be amended quickly and easily. A database connection reduces the data administration efforts of PinPoint almost to zero. This helps to safe costs considerable.


Applications


Subsidiaries and Branches: Companies for whom it is business relevant that their subsidiaries, branches, shops etc. get found by customers.


Brand Product Manufacturers: Customers who are interested to buy a product of a brand manufacturer who distributes via the wholesale and specialized trade and does not have his own distribution network, often don‘t know where they are obtainable. PinPoint not only shows a distributor and his exact location but can provide location specific information about employees who are well schooled with the wanted product.


Description


Get'n'Drop is a virtual car rental company in central Europe. The menu at the left  are not active excepting the HELP-menu. Get‘n‘Drop embedded the interactive map into the website under the menu „Stations“. The embedded map is 100% operational.


Prominent Features


Clustering/Country Flags

Depending from the zoom level of the map the icons of several locations in the same small area get packed very compact. PinPoint clusters the locations automatically and indicates this by a cluster icon. By clicking a cluster icon the map zooms and the locations get displayed individually. There are three clustering levels: Country, province/federal state, town/community. Get‘n‘Drop is using flags in the first clustering level. As cluster icons for the province level blue icons
and for the town level ruby coloured icons
get used.


Business Cards

The small information windows/business cards contain more information beside that to identify the location:

By clicking the button
“approaching zoom“

the defined map section gets zoomed directly, which shows the surrounding area of a location. The map returns to the previous zoom level by clicking the button in the list a second time.


Information

First text contents inform the website visitor about location specific details.


Integrated Route Calculation

By clicking the button „approaching route“
the place of departure can be written in an input window. The approaching route gets displayed and described in a new window.


Communication

By clicking a call number or the Skype symbol a Voice-over-IP system gets opened and activated automatically if installed by the customer.

E-mail-link/URL-link: By clicking an e-mail address the window for writing a mail opens, which was installed by the customer. When clicking a website address the website opens automatically.


Showcase

Some locations provide further information, which can‘t be contained by a business card. A larger information window opens, when clicking the showcase symbol
in the business card or the list. The information are organized in index cards which can be selected by tabs. Beside text and images they also can contain videos and webcam links. Get‘n‘Drop displays some locations in Austria with integrated videos.