# GPS Tracking Open Source API Integration

> GPS Leaders offers an API for their Fleet GPS Tracking Platform. It enables their customers and encourages third-party developers.

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Fleet Tracking

## GPS Tracking Open Source API Integration

GPS Leaders offers an API for their Fleet GPS Tracking Platform. It enables their customers and encourages third-party developers.

By [Nick Muratore](https://gpsleaders.com/about)

GPS Veteran & CEO, GPS Leaders·September 17, 2017·2 min read

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#### STREAMLINE PRODUCTIVITY ON YOUR PLATFORM WITH OUR API INTEGRATION

GPS Leaders offers an Application Programming Interface (API) for their Fleet GPS Tracking Platform. It enables their customers and encourages third-party developers worldwide to integrate their systems with the GPS Leaders fleet tracking platform. The power of API integration is tremendous. The GPS Tracking data can be used in many ways such as for resource planning, vehicle maintenance systems, scheduling systems, and analytical vehicle data capturing.

The GPS Leaders API can help to significantly streamline your day to day operations on one platform, while increasing your revenue and helping to generate an immediate ROI for your business. This Web Service utilizes the RESTful API architecture which uses a set of basic operation for creating, reading, updating, and/or deleting information using HTTP calls.

- Rest API
- Seamless flow of information
- 2-pronged alternate data communication
- Requested API Key for Extra Layered Security
- Share GPS location data with an ease
- Analyze mileage, idling, fuel consumption, and many other factors
- View location data, event data, input data, PTO Monitoring & temperature data
- Create schedules for drivers, increasing response times
- Monitor vehicle health & performance quickly
- Vehicle Maintenance Systems

Get started to and learn how the GPS Leaders Open API can offer your business a simple and secure way to efficiently move vehicle location data, performance data, engine diagnostic data and refrigeration temperature data to your third-party software applications.

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[Nick Muratore](https://gpsleaders.com/about)

GPS Veteran & CEO, GPS Leaders

Nick Muratore is the founder and CEO of GPS Leaders, a vehicle intelligence company he established in 2015 and continues to lead from California. Over a 32-year career he has evaluated more than 120 GPS hardware and software products, developing the comparative expertise that underpins the company's approach: recommending systems on evidence of field performance rather than specification. Under his direction GPS Leaders serves vehicle finance, dealership, rental, fleet and equipment operators nationwide, on a model built around transparent pricing, no annual fees, and owner-level accountability.

Fleet Tracking

### Run your fleet on real numbers

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