Telcontar Unveils Online Location-Enhanced Application Development Environment for European Designer
Written by Telcontar
Tuesday, 14 February 2006
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Barcelona, Spain – February 13, 2006 – Telcontar, the leading supplier of software and services for the Location-Based Services (LBS) industry, today announced at the 3GSM World Congress, the Telcontar Developer Zone's expansion to European-based LBS developers, offering a free online workspace environment that enables quick and easy prototyping for the development of location-enhanced applications.
The site, http://developer.telcontar.com, allows easy access to Telcontar's high-efficiency development software and industry-proven Drill Down Server® (DDS) geospatial platform, sample code, documentation and various tools, as well as use of map and point-of-interest (POI) data from leading content providers. European developers will find the Developer Zone streamlines the process of assembling and integrating many separate pieces of geospatial data and technology in order to deliver a pre-production application or demo in as little as a day.
"Our expansion of the Developer Zone brings immediate availability of our industry-proven tools, and DDS platform – with an impressive track-record of user success – to the European LBS application developer community," said J. Kim Fennell, President and CEO of Telcontar. "With the combined pressures of application differentiation, complexity, and time-to-market driving new applications, developers can confidently focus on the features of their application without also having to spend valuable time and intellectual resources on hardware, software, or data configuration and maintenance. It's a sizeable advantage to significantly shorten the development process."
Telcontar's Developer Zone now offers European map and POI data from the industry-leading content providers, with immediate support for the United Kingdom and Ireland, expanding to many other European countries over the next few months. The service appears to the developer as a simple URL, to which XML can be posted. The server returns XML, containing URLs for images, and standards-based XML elements for representing addresses, routes, POIs and a variety of other structures common to location-based services. Included in the online service is a standards-compliant (OpenLS™) application programming interface, access to map and POI data, documentation, software downloads, live sample applications and design tools, and online support. This service is offered for free to application developers for pre-commercial development and testing of location applications.
Telcontar's Developer Zone also incorporates its advanced DDS Web Services which implement the four core OpenLS location services: map rendering, geocoding and reverse geocoding, route calculation, and POI lookup. With flexibility to change the map style on-the-fly, developers can also customize these services for the simplest to the most sophisticated LBS application depending on their requirements and user experience goals. Additionally, DDS Web Services include a powerful, multi-lingual single line-address geocoder for converting free-form postal addresses into latitude/longitude pairs, which greatly simplifies application design and delivers a streamlined modern-style user interface. Telcontar's unique geocoder boasts over 24 distinct address-matching techniques to achieve exceptional success rates.
About Telcontar
Telcontar leads and pioneers the Location-Based Services (LBS) industry by providing application-enhancing development software tools, services and platforms. The company specializes in providing solutions ideal for Internet, mobile, and telematics applications where scalability, speed, and reliability are vital. Its Drill Down Server® geospatial software platform powers today's most successful and widely deployed LBS applications. Telcontar customers and technology partners include AND, Appello, Ask Jeeves, ATX, Google, Hutchison Mobile, Local Matters, Motorola, NAVTEQ, Networks In Motion, Pharos, Rand McNally, TeleAtlas, and Yahoo!. Telcontar is privately held and headquartered in San Jose, California. Additional information about Telcontar, its products and services, and past press releases can be found at the Company's web site: http://www.telcontar.com.
Telcontar and Drill Down Server are trademarks or registered trademarks of Telcontar in the United States and/or other countries. All other product or company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
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