LBS Developers Look to ESRI for a Competitive Edge in the NAVTEQ LBS Challenge
Written by ESRI
Tuesday, 02 October 2007
Redlands, California―Location-based services (LBS) developers
participating in the 2008 North America NAVTEQ Global
LBS Challenge gain a competitive edge using ESRI as
their mobile solution development platform.
ESRI is a sponsor for the
LBS Challenge, an annual competition
that provides developers with an opportunity to showcase their location-based
solutions and win a variety of prizes including up to $50,000 in cash from
NAVTEQ and data licenses from ESRI. Contest participants looking to build
winning solutions can sign up for no-cost access to ArcWeb Services, ESRI’s hosted Web
services mapping and geographic information system (GIS) application programming
interfaces (APIs).
“Mobile application developers who
choose ESRI’s ArcWeb
Services can be
more successful in reaching their objective,” says
Randy Frantz, telecommunications and LBS solutions manager for ESRI. “Because the
APIs go well beyond basic maps and directions, these developers will be able to
focus on solving business problems rather than having to spend precious
development cycles building complex mapping functionality from
scratch.”
Developers use the ArcWeb
Services APIs for integrating mapping
functionality and geographic content into mobile, browser, and server
applications to help solve business problems such as best-route delivery
planning or advanced vehicle tracking that includes off-route or
out-of-service-area alarms.
Contest entrants
register solutions in one of five categories:
Enterprise, Entertainment/Leisure, Navigation,
Social Networking, or Third-Party Content. Prizes for the winners include cash
and licenses for the use of NAVTEQ data and ESRI’s ArcWeb
Services as well as offerings from other sponsors.
Nine past LBS Challenge winners have launched commercial applications on major
wireless carriers, and eight previous LBS Challenge participants received
venture capital funding.
Winners will be announced at the CTIA
Wireless 2008 show, held April 1–3, 2008, in
Las Vegas,
Nevada. Registration for the North America LBS
challenge closes December 7, 2007. To sign up, visit www.esri.com/lbschallenge.
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