Oldenburg and Braunschweig, Germany – May 23, 2016 – CEWE, Europe’s number one photo book company and locr GmbH, the leading provider of personalized maps, today announce that CEWE has enhanced its Photoworld Creator Software to include the latest generation of personalized maps from locr. This update gives CEWE customers access to a range of map styles they can use to enhance the popular travel and holiday themed photo books they create using the CEWE service.
Since 2011, the integration with locr has allowed CEWE customers to include dynamically generated maps in their photo books. With the introduction of locr’s next generation technology, customers can access maps that have a level of quality and detail not seen before in consumer-created photo products.
“Since more and more customers use photos from mobile devices and reflex cameras to create their CEWE photo book, the geodata are a great new possibility to make a photobook even more informative and interesting. Suggesting maps automatically based on geodata leverages the CEWE photo book assistant’s attractiveness. The free creation of map cutouts and map designs are attractive ways of creating for enthusiasts”, explains Dr. Fageth, Chief Technical Officer of CEWE.
The “Meine CEWE FOTOWELT” Software enables customers to create personalized travel journals and holiday albums in form of a CEWE photobook, which can be enhanced with the addition of informative, perfectly-crafted maps that detail the location of where the pictures were taken. The user simply uploads their photo to the book design they created with “Meine CEWE FOTOWELT” software. Using the geodata taken from the GPS-enabled cameras on a smartphone, the solution automatically detects the locations where photos were taken. The customer can see a map of the area around the location and instantly download a high quality version of the map to position in their photo book layout. They can select the scale of the map, and choose from different styles of maps suitable for city locations, countryside and mountains.
The new generation of maps provided by locr GmbH is possible because locr has recently selected OpenStreetMap (OSM) as the data provider for their range of personalized and dynamically created maps. The data in OSM comes from a global community of users who update and add to the OSM database continuously to ensure the data is always current and valid.
locr takes the data supplied by OSM and applies their proprietary solution to generate accurate, up-to-date personalized maps in a range of familiar visual styles that can be used in many different professional and consumer applications such as photo books.
Holger Urbanksy, Managing Director of locr, says “At locr, we are committed to helping our customers use location to their best advantage. Moving to OSM helps us to keep that commitment. It gives us the data we need to create personalized maps that include even more detail and information than before. With OSM as the foundation, we have used our cartographic expertise and creative freedom to create a range of map styles of the highest quality for photo books and other printed products. We are delighted that CEWE have incorporated the new generation of maps into their popular service”.
About CEWE
CEWE is Europe’s leading photo service and a successful provider of commercial online printing. In addition to our quality promise “Best in Print” CEWE stands for innovation and the joy of photography. With a wide range of high quality branded products such as the CEWE PHOTOBOOK, CEWE Calendars, CEWE Wall Art and CEWE Cards and a variety of photo gifts, we are the market leader. The CEWE PHOTOBOOK is the most popular photo book in Europe and in 2015 more than 6 million people had the opportunity to tell their personal stories and to relive life’s best moments through their very own CEWE PHOTOBOOK. In addition to the photofinishing business CEWE also owns CEWE-PRINT.de, SAXOPRINT and Viaprinto which caters for the growing market in online printing and commercial advertising materials. The company is represented at 12 production sites in 24 countries with approximately 3,400 employees. Over 25,000 stores are supplied throughout Europe by CEWE. CEWE was founded in 1961 by Senator h. C. Heinz Neumüller and brought in 1993 by Hubert Rothärmel. The CEWE Stiftung & Co. KGaA is listed on the SDAX and achieved in 2015 a consolidated turnover of 554.2 million Euros.
For more information, visit: www.cewe.de
About locr
locr is the world’s leading provider of geo-based services that let companies use location to their advantage. locr takes data from leading geodata suppliers and converts it into geo-information services and personalized maps that can be used to enhance any combination where location matters, including photo books, direct mail campaigns, invitations, and conference materials.
For more information, visit www.locr.com and follow us on:
Twitter (www.twitter.com/locrmaps) and on LinkedIn (linkedin).
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