Help your customers locate your Dealers!

LocatorPro(tm) easily directs your prospects and customers to the "Dealer Location Nearest" them. Using a template system, you can control the "look and feel" of the search and search results, showing only fields you want the viewer to see.

LocatorPro(tm) uses "geocode information" (latitude and longitude) for Addresses, Zip Codes and City-States. Our system obtains geocode information in one of three ways:

1. [database & search] using geocoding information (latitude and longitude) supplied by the U.S. Postal Service,
2. [database] computing geocoding information using the address of the database entry,
3. [database] using geocoding information supplied by you when your database is created or changed.

We don't limit the type of database you store, either. Here are some examples:

• Retail chain: store the locations of your retail stores;
• Distributor: store the locations of your retailers or distribution centers;
• Association: store locations of your members. For example, we host the Oregon Golf Association - they use our service to store the location of their member golf courses;
• Website Directory: store the location of your directory members. For example, we host Realty Referral Network - they store locations of their realtor members.

Because we currently obtain our geocoding database from the U.S. Postal Service, our service is limited to the United States.

Creating your database

You can create your database in one of several ways:

1. Upload a datafile containing name, address, website URL and other data, with or without existing latitude/longitude data,
2. Enter database information one record at a time using our administrative tool, or
3. Supply us with a file and we will convert it for you (usually at a cost less than US$200.00.

After the database is created initially, you can enter and maintain it via upload, our administrative tool, or re-conversion of your datafile.

Accessing your "Locator"

To access the Locator, the reader pulls up a "Search Form". Form style and defaults is set by the administrative tool, but the reader can override defaults (range and number of results, etc.).

When the reader enters a Zip Code or a City/State, the program finds the latitude and longitude in our database and then computes the distance between the reader's request and each entry in the database.

The program then displays the results, nearest first, according the parameters set in the Search Form.