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The Magic of Location (and LBS) at the third annual deCarta devCON
Written by LBSzone
Thursday, 18 October 2007
deCarta wants to show
you the magic of location at the third annual devCON - The event features two
information-packed days of Location-Based Services technical sessions and
business tracks, followed by a full day of hands-on, special workshops for
active developers. deCarta's devCON'07 is
a unique opportunity for you to get first-hand perspective and information from
the technologists and industry experts who are bringing new capabilities,
technology and "magic" to this booming market. Save the date... November 13th -
15th, 2007.
deCarta is pleased to host its third annual
devCON
November 13th - 15th, 2007
at the Dolce Hayes Mansion in
San Jose, CA
You'll be able to select from a content-rich array of technology, best
practices and business topics, and learn the latest in LBS application
development
- Business and Industry sessions will provide you with the latest perspective
on market trends, technology requirements, roadblocks and opportunity, with
individual presentations and panel discussions featuring some of the industry's
leading experts.
- Intermediate- and advanced-level technical sessions will
go more in-depth on topics such as advanced navigation capabilities, geo-coding,
map image settings, aerial image underlay, real-time and thematic data integration, traffic, platform
scalability, best practices for sat nav system UI design, and so on.
- For
developers who are new to location applications or deCarta's technology, a
series of sessions will provide an accelerated course on developing applications
using deCarta's DDS platform, Web Services and powerful new JavaScript API, as
well as deCarta's recently introduced Navigation SDK and Navigation Application
for personal navigation devices and smartphones.
- A full-day, hands-on
Developer's Workshop will be custom-tailored to help you accelerate your
application development.
Markets Covered
Internet, Mobile, Enterprise, Personal Navigation
Who Should Attend?
- LBS Application Developers/Programmers
- Web Application
Developers
- Software Design Engineers
- Software Architects
- IT
Managers
- Engineering Managers
- LBS VARs
- LBS Executive
Management
Session Topics include:
Location-Based Web Services For Optimizing
Business In The Enterprise
Doing More With
deCarta's JavaScript API
Understanding What Makes Geospatial Data
Different
The Benefits Of deCarta's Developer Zone
Building Your
Navigation Application Using deCarta's NavSDK
What A Year! What's Happened In
Mobile LBS And Where It's Going
You Can do That With Addresses?: Advanced
Geocoding & Localization
and much more!
Developers are also encouraged to join the deCarta Developer
Zone
Developers leverage more than 10 years of development and a rich set of
unique, patented capabilities built into deCarta's advanced software products.
deCarta provides a number of programs, services and special events specifically
tailored to location application developers:
* The deCarta Developer Zone ("Dev Zone"), a free online service allowing
developers to quickly prototype and demonstrate location-enabled applications.
Developers can write applications that make queries to a shared deCarta Drill
Down Server™, the industry's premier platform for location-based services, via
the Internet
* As a charter sponsor of the NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge deCarta wants
to welcome you to this year's competition
* deCarta is a member of the NAVTEQ Network for Developers. Learn
more.
* Full-featured demo applications and sample code to get developers up to
speed quickly and efficiently with deCarta's technology
* Monthly webinars on DDS Web Services and other new and exciting
technologies developed by the deCarta engineering team. The schedule is
available on the Developer Zone
* An annual Developers Conference where deCarta developers and partners
come to share experiences and best practices, and learn about the latest
development directly from the deCarta engineering team
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deCarta wants to show
you the magic of location at the third annual devCON - The event features two
information-packed days of Location-Based Services technical sessions and
business tracks, followed by a full day of hands-on, special workshops for
active 
