Platform Accelerates Time-to-Market and Permits Application Customization for
Increased Branding
SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 4 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- deCarta (formerly
Telcontar), the leading supplier of software platforms and services for the
Location-Based Services (LBS) industry, has announced today the launch of the
deCarta Navigation Software Developer Kit (SDK). The new developer kit
enables personal navigation device and smart phone manufacturers to quickly
build and bring to market highly customized and differentiated navigation
applications. The SDK also provides the manufacturer the freedom and ability
to reinforce their brand with a customizable look and feel.
deCarta’s Navigation SDK builds on the strength of the company’s Rich
Map Engine(TM) -- the same underlying gold-standard technology broadly
deployed by today’s leading Internet, wireless and navigation solution
providers such as Google, Ask.com, Verizon and Sprint. Combining unparalleled
routing speed and an extensive array of navigation capabilities, deCarta’s
Navigation SDK allows for quick introduction of products with attractive and
best-in-class functionality targeted for high return on investment.
Navigation functionality supported by the SDK includes:
* Fast route calculations, supporting drivers preference for shortest,
fastest, avoid toll roads, and avoid freeways along with support for
time-of-day turn restrictions
* Multi-point routing
* Efficient ways to select a street address or desired point-of-interest
as a destination
* Easy to understand 2D and 3D maps with preferred points-of-interest
shown along a highlighted route
* Guidance to ensure that as the route is followed, timely, appropriate,
and generated in an easy to understand text, voice, and graphical
information about a pending maneuver
* Patented algorithms to accurately determine a vehicle position
eliminating GPS errors and ambiguity
"In the industry’s rapidly growing and competitive environment,
manufacturers must be agile in bringing differentiated applications to
market," said J. Kim Fennell, President and CEO of deCarta. "The Navigation
SDK allows personal navigation device producers to focus their resources on
customizing and enhancing the user interface, rather than spending valuable
time constructing the increasingly complex navigation platform."
Providing the Bridge to Connected Navigation
As the industry moves toward connected navigation to improve user
experience and brand loyalty, deCarta’s Navigation SDK provides future
migration to dynamic on-board navigation applications giving users up-to-the-
minute traffic, road, weather and local search by linking the mobile unit to
deCarta’s flagship Drill Down Server(R) -- already powering some of the most
successful location-based service applications on the market. The Navigation
SDK also ensures application compatibility with new releases of the
underlying route engine, while providing a uniform data model to enable the
use of best-in-class map data from multiple vendors without impacting
application performance.
Ease of Integration
deCarta’s Navigation SDK is a comprehensive development suite with
software, sample code, sample data and complete documentation. The SDK
provides an Application Programming Interface (API) for accessing all of the
functions required to create customized navigation applications, allowing
customers to bypass the "trial and error" phase, reduce development time, and
bring products to market faster. To help accelerate development, sample
applications in source code that illustrate the use of all the navigation
functionality supported will be provided to developers.
Navigation Device Screen Detail Examples
2D View
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3D View
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Demonstration and Availability
The Navigation SDK will be generally available for WinCE in Q1 2007 and
for Linux in Q2 2007. Demonstration of deCarta’s Navigation SDK will be
available at the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) being
held in Las Vegas, Nevada in January. To schedule a demonstration, please
contact deCarta at 1-408-625-3508.
For more product information, visit
http://www.decarta.com/products/navsdk/index.html .
About deCarta
deCarta is the leading geospatial software platform that powers today’s
most successful Location-Based Services (LBS) applications such as those
deployed at Google Maps, Yahoo, Ask.com, Verizon and Sprint. The company’s
unique, patented technology is ideal for high-volume LBS applications for use
in Internet, mobile, personal navigation and telematics applications where
scalability, speed, and reliability are vital. Its Drill Down Server
geospatial software platform, Rich Map Engine and Hosted Web Service is
preferred by application developers and service providers who also want the
flexibility to customize map styles, utilize unique routing capabilities and
self-brand. deCarta customers and technology partners include AND, Appello,
Ask.com, ATX, Hotels.com, Google, Local Matters, Maps.com, Motorola, NAVTEQ,
Networks In Motion, Pharos, Rand McNally, Tele Atlas, TeleNav, Yahoo! and
Zillow. deCarta is privately held and headquartered in San Jose, California
with international offices in the UK and China. http://www.decarta.com .
NOTE: deCarta, the deCarta logo, Rich Map Engine and Drill Down Server
are trademarks or registered trademarks of deCarta, Inc. in the United States
and/or other countries. All other company, brand and product names are marks
of their respective holders.
