By Christine Moloney
While this quarantine has many of us feeling blue, Blue Rhino has us covered for some at-home fun. With summer weather finally arriving this Memorial Day Weekend, it’s time to light up the grill! Blue Rhino is using Mapbox’s location and mapping platform to create a unique and easy to use Propane Finder so you can find the most convenient retailer to replace your tank.
Using Mapbox Studio, Blue Rhino created a beautiful custom map style and icons that match their brand identity. Simply type in your home address or search by zip code and Mapbox’s Temporary Geocoding API will pinpoint your location and highlight the Blue Rhino propane retailers near you. Blue Rhino enhances these results by using Mapbox’s Matrix API to order them based on the real-time driving time, not simply ordering them by straight line distance from you. What may appear on the map as the closest location might not be the fastest to get to when considering traffic or one-way streets.
To make things even easier for their customers, Blue Rhino has implemented Mapbox’s Directions API to provide you with turn by turn instructions from your house to the closest store, that you can have sent directly to your phone.
“We found Mapbox’s platform easy to implement and the response from our customers has been outstanding,” said Joe Blo, Director of IT at Blue Rhino
Let Blue Rhino get you outside grillin’ and over those quarantine blues! Sign up for a Mapbox account and start building your custom store locator today.
Christine Moloney - Account Manager - Mapbox | LinkedIn
“Maps feature data from Mapbox and OpenStreetMap and their data partners.”
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