Fleet Management Systems are growing rapidly into essential requirements for both governments and business owners around the globe trying to manage fleets. The necessity of controlling operating costs, easy management of services, administrative schedules and improved inventory management of assets has become decisive factors in helping companies to gain productivity and overall efficiency advantages over the competition. Ideal Solutions was the first company in Qatar to recognize such importance and demand, and signed the first contract in Qatar to MOWASALAT "Taxi Company" to provide a complete taxi dispatching system empowered by Ideal Solutions Navigation Map data. Vehicle navigation systems also assist in planning trips, selecting routes, giving driving instructions, and guiding through geographic space. Vehicle navigation is a particularly demanding and challenging application of geographic databases as it combines the need for fast access to very large spatial databases with the need for real-time processing. Location Based Service (LBS) is any service or application that extends spatial information processing capabilities to end users via the Internet and/or wireless network. It is a business and consumer service, which gives users a set of mobile services starting from the geographic location of the client. By these services users or machines are offered possibilities to find/locate other persons, machines, vehicles and resources. Recognized LBS applications are:
• Locators/Directories
• Directions and traffic
• Emergency Response/E-999
• Tracking/Fleet management
• Field force automation
• Customer relationship management
• Mobile position determination
• Map preparation and maintenance
• Tracking vehicles, people, pets and objects
• Package monitoring
• Stolen vehicle recovery
• Employee dispatch
• Logistics/Transportation GIS Navigation Map Data Preparation is considered one of the most expensive and important component to meet LBS solutions. GIS data has to be authorized as all Qatar base maps are owned by Qatar Center for GIS (CGIS). The CGIS has officially authorized Ideal Solutions Company to update and use the maps for specific projects in Qatar. Ideal Solutions can deliver and licenses Qatar Navigation Map Data in ESRI shapefile format or/and in MID/MIF.