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Benefits of UKCompass
Appear more professional to users.Why let your users wade through long lists of your outlets, when you can give them powerful search facilities and let them jump straight to the information they need? We offer searches by postcode, place name, motorway junction and clickable UK map.
To put any or all of these on your, or your client's, site is easy - just a few lines of HTML - no Java or server side code is required. Complex searches, for example only including premises that are currently open, or have certain facilities, are simple to set up. List entries can be of any length, and contain as much detail as needed.
Lists of over 100,000 entries can be sorted by distance and returned to your users in real time. Distances, direction, and a link to a map showing the location are also provided.
Low Maintenance.Maintaining UK postcode and place name data, and writing the application to search through addresses, is an expensive business. With UKCompass all you need to do is keep your lists of premises up to date - we convert them from any standard database or text file into our format. The cost is far less than buying the postcode data, or even just hosting it.
WAP Enabled - let users access your data on the move.While the initial reaction to WAP services in general has been luke warm, UKCompass has seen consistent growth its user base and interest in the service has never been greater. As wireless technologies continue to improve the importance of having a presence on the 'mobile web' can only increase.
'Find my nearest' services are a natural application for WAP - the only trouble is writing a WAP version of your website, and getting users to visit it. Typing a URL can be slow on a phone and space in bookmark lists is limited, so it makes sense to be featured on an established WAP site. UKCompass has received excellent reviews, and, through portal agreements, is pre-configured onto many thousands of new WAP phones each month.
The UKCompass WAP site has been designed with usability in mind and tested on a range of real handsets. The same rich content that you have in your website list is available on the WAP site and, with the right phone, users can call you with a couple of key presses.
To find out more about our location-based solutions, please contact us.
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