About us

RouteYou.com is a product of RouteYou

What we do

RouteYou.com website and RouteYou web-components

The RouteYou.com website offers the end-users a selection of routes and a set of tools such as the RouteViewer to explore the routes in an interactive way. The user can print routes or download routes in a digital (navigation) format.

The user can also create routes using the RoutePlanner, and share the route via groups.

The RouteYou.com website offers a platform for the user of out-door routes, for content providers, applicationbuilders, organisations, advertisers,...

The RouteViewer and the RoutePlanner can be plugged-in easily in your website to visualise routes and/or plan routes. Here are a few examples:
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Services and other products

We produce and translate raw route-information towards digital structured data.
We also create route-networks for GPS navigation systems. Our focus is mainly outdoor navigation for tourists, hikers, cyclists and motorbikers. During the outdoor activity, the user wants to be navigated via the most suitable and relaxing route, rather than the shortest or fastest.

We produce these kind of routes and route-networks which allow route-planning and turn-by-turn navigation for cyclists, hikers, citytrippers, motorbikers...

Read here about the RouteYou-nework.

We also offer the hosting-service for the data and the applications (e.g. RouteViewer and RoutePlanner ).

We also translate digital routes to a multitude of digital route-formats.

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RouteYou in the presss

Video's on YouTube about RouteYou
AVS Video Routeyou.Com launch
www.netties.be
Mobile Monday
Walk on Web seminar feed-back
Stad Gent & v-ict-or.be
Nieuwsblad.be

Presentation Walk on Web
Nokia & RouteYou

Mobile applications for tourism
Wordpress

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Who are we

RouteYou was founded as Ontrack Navigation in May 2005 by Philiep De Sutter.

RouteYou started as the company Ontrack Navigation in May 2005. It 's founded by Philiep De Sutter. Philiep is an Electronics Engineer and was CTO for Tele Atlas before he started his own company. In 1988, he was one of the people starting up Tele Atlas in Belgium. As CTO, he was the worldwide responsible for technology, production and product-development.

In december 2005, Pascal Brackman became the second shareholder of Ontrack Navigation, currently RouteYou and took up the responsibility of operations. Pascal has a Ph.D. in Science, Geography and also has a career-path passing through Tele Atlas. He was Director Process Engineering & Product Design. He is currently also guest-lecturer at the University of Ghent, teaching the course Geomatics.

In febr 2007, Philip Van der Putten took up the responsibility of Marketing & Sales, but he also became the 3rd shareholder. Philip Van der Putten has a Master in Geography, and has been active for years in the domain of geography, IT and geomatics. His carrier followed the path via VEV-CIM, Rank Xerox, Interleaf, Teleatlas and IncGeo. So you might figure out how we all met.

The years of experience in the navigation world and the close link with the major players in the spatial data market places RouteYou in a unique position to develop and maintain in a professional way digital routes, route networks and related information. RouteYou bases its production of networks on Tele Atlas maps.

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Vacancies


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Our partners

To guarantee the highest quality of the information and services, we have partnerships with several parties.

We have partnerships with publishers and authors to provide interesting, up-to-date and accurate route information. We have partnerships with suppliers of reference data such as digital vectormaps and aerial photography to locate and position the spatial data correctly and efficiently. And we have partnerships with applicationbuilders of navigation platforms to offer new content and new possibilities on those devices.

Parnterships linked to source data

We have partnerships and are looking for parties supplying source data for routes, tourist data and routenetworks. These parties can be big publishers, as well as individual authours, as well as tourist organisations. These partners are specialized in the collection, creation and maintenance of route-information.

Parnterships linked to referenence data

To allow a qualitative tanslation from source-data to route-information, RouteYou makes use of roadnetworks, topographic maps and aerial photography. Therefore RouteYou made partnersships with parties that supply this type of quality material.

Partnerships linked to technology

To have a perfect match of the data we provide and the upcoming navigation technology, RouteYou made several partnerships with software and hardware developers on the level of GPS systemen, web-development, data-engineering and geomatics.

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