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About MarineTraffic
MarineTraffic is one of the world’s leading providers of ship tracking and maritime intelligence, providing the shipping, trade, and logistics industries with actionable insights into shipping activity.
Industries:
Other
Location:
United Kingdom
About Snowdrop Solutions
As a leading Google Maps Premier Partner for the UK, Snowdrop Solutions helps companies get the most value from Google Maps Platform and location intelligence with its products and services.
Google Cloud results
- Enables visualization of mission-critical vessel tracking and maritime intelligence with Google Maps Platform
- Delivers transparency and actionable information to shipping professionals with rich API sets and familiar user experience
- Provides real-time location intelligence as the backbone for tracking freight on a global scale
- Provides a visualization tool for products including tracking, routes, weather, and replays
- Powers 180 million interactive and 160 million static map views for users per month
Enables doubling of site traffic to 6.2M monthly users
MarineTraffic leverages the rich API sets offered by Google Maps Platform
to provide shipping professionals with actionable information and vessel monitoring anywhere in the world. The familiar map interface and the Geocoding API
provide accurate location tracking and business directory information enriched with weather, tidal, in-depth asset tracking, and other data critical to shipping professionals. The Maps JavaScript API
enables live features within the interactive maps, and the Maps Static API
integrates with the MarineTraffic back end to provide deeper insights into where vessels have been, where they’re going, and when they’ll arrive.
MarineTraffic partnered with Snowdrop Solutions
, who helped them during the Google Maps Platform implementation phase, assisting with consultancy on technical issues. Collaboration is still ongoing after this implementation phase with the optimization on maps usage, among other things.
“Google Maps Platform helps us deliver actionable maritime intelligence in real time. A rich set of APIs enables us to provide pinpoint accuracy and highly relevant data on global marine traffic in a fully optimized and familiar user experience.”
— Savvas Kampouridis, Head of Engineering, MarineTraffic
About MarineTraffic
MarineTraffic is one of the world’s leading providers of ship tracking and maritime intelligence, providing the shipping, trade, and logistics industries with actionable insights into shipping activity.
Industries:
Other
Location:
United Kingdom
About Snowdrop Solutions
As a leading Google Maps Premier Partner for the UK, Snowdrop Solutions helps companies get the most value from Google Maps Platform and location intelligence with its products and services.
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We're here to help.[Contact us](/contact) \n\nAbout Snowdrop Solutions\n\n\nAs a leading Google Maps Premier Partner for the UK, Snowdrop Solutions helps companies get the most value from Google Maps Platform and location intelligence with its products and services.\n\nAs a leading global provider of ship tracking and maritime intelligence, [MarineTraffic](https://www.marinetraffic.com/) uses Google Maps Platform to monitor vessel movements and provide actionable shipping activity insights based on data gathered from its own receiving stations and satellite receivers and outside sources, then filtered through proprietary algorithms. \n\nGoogle Cloud results\n\n- Enables visualization of mission-critical vessel tracking and maritime intelligence with Google Maps Platform\n- Delivers transparency and actionable information to shipping professionals with rich API sets and familiar user experience\n- Provides real-time location intelligence as the backbone for tracking freight on a global scale\n- Provides a visualization tool for products including tracking, routes, weather, and replays\n- Powers 180 million interactive and 160 million static map views for users per month \n\nEnables doubling of site traffic to 6.2M monthly users \n\nMarineTraffic leverages the rich API sets offered by [Google Maps Platform](https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/) to provide shipping professionals with actionable information and vessel monitoring anywhere in the world. The familiar map interface and the [Geocoding API](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/start) provide accurate location tracking and business directory information enriched with weather, tidal, in-depth asset tracking, and other data critical to shipping professionals. The [Maps JavaScript API](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/tutorial) enables live features within the interactive maps, and the [Maps Static API](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/maps-static/intro) integrates with the MarineTraffic back end to provide deeper insights into where vessels have been, where they're going, and when they'll arrive.\n\n\nMarineTraffic partnered with [Snowdrop Solutions](https://snowdropsolutions.co.uk), who helped them during the Google Maps Platform implementation phase, assisting with consultancy on technical issues. Collaboration is still ongoing after this implementation phase with the optimization on maps usage, among other things. \n\n\"Google Maps Platform helps us deliver actionable maritime intelligence in real time. A rich set of APIs enables us to provide pinpoint accuracy and highly relevant data on global marine traffic in a fully optimized and familiar user experience.\"\n---*Savvas Kampouridis, Head of Engineering, MarineTraffic*\n\nTell us your challenge. We're here to help.[Contact us](/contact) \n\nAbout MarineTraffic\n\n\nMarineTraffic is one of the world's leading providers of ship tracking and maritime intelligence, providing the shipping, trade, and logistics industries with actionable insights into shipping activity. \nIndustries: Other \nLocation: United Kingdom \n\nAbout Snowdrop Solutions\n\n\nAs a leading Google Maps Premier Partner for the UK, Snowdrop Solutions helps companies get the most value from Google Maps Platform and location intelligence with its products and services. \n[Google Maps Platform](https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/) [Geocoding API](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/intro) [Maps JavaScript API](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/tutorial) \n\n*Published 2020* \n\n*Product availability, functionality and terms may differ for customers with billing addresses in the [European Economic Area](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Glossary:European_Economic_Area_%28EEA%29#:~:text=The%20European%20Economic%20Area%2C%20abbreviated,force%20on%201%20January%201994%2E) (EEA). [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/maps/comms/eea/faq)*\n\nLearn More\n\n- [Reach out to our team to see how Google Cloud can help your business.](https://cloud.google.com/contact)"]]
