1. Things to consider when building
mobile LBS applications
June 8, 2009
Michael Moore, Technical Consultant,
Partner & Developer Programs
NAVTEQ Network for Developers – http://www.NN4D.com
2. NAVTEQ® maps are everywhere
NAVTEQ is the premier provider of digital maps and other content that
power many of the world’s most innovative navigation applications
In-Dash Telematics Internet
Portable Navigation Mobile Phones Trip Planning
Fleet Enterprise Government
3. Superior detail and richness
NAVTEQ® maps have up to 260 unique attributes for every road segment
and Points of Interest in more than 50 categories in 77 countries.
Turn Restrictions One-Ways Access Restrictions Underground Exits
Physical Barriers Complex Maneuvers Vanity Addresses Points of Interest
11. New opportunities with Galileo
The first civil satellite positioning system
Funded by the European Union (EU) and built by
the European Space Agency (ESA)
12. European Satellite Navigation Competition 2009
Europe's unique ideas competition for satellite navigation apps
Global challenge: High-tech regions from all over the world
are competing for the GALILEO Master
Win the chance to realize your idea in your preferred region
Global players: Strong partners award Special Topic Prizes with
the aim of joint realization
Global networking: All winners & finalists will meet for the Awards ceremony in Munich on
Oct 21st
NAVTEQ Special Topic Prize – looking for…
Innovative location-based app ideas
Working in the wireless/ handheld sector
Usage of dynamic positioning technology
Usage of map data
13. NAVTEQ Special Topic Prize
NAVTEQ DATA FOR 1 YEAR PARTNER BUSINESS DEV
1 2
Oneyear free access Coaching, business
to NAVTEQ map data, development support
content and services and web promotions
through NAVTEQ
Network for
Developers™ (NN4D)
12-month incubation program
Worth approx €75,000
NAVTEQ
BUSINESS MATCHMAKING
TECHNICAL SUPPORT Special Topic 4
3 Prize Opportunity to present
A Personal Technical
Consultant will assist approved application to
in taking the winning NAVTEQ partners &
idea through to worldwide customers,
successful including leading
implementation. handset manufacturers,
platform and technology
providers
Submit your app idea by July 31st via http://www.galileomasters.eu/
15. Opportunities in Location-Based Services (LBS)
Navigation Content
Turn by turn, map & route, Advertising, directories,
pedestrian, traffic, POIs search, weather,
events,
Social Networking Entertainment & Leisure
Find me, match me, Travel, athletics, gaming, local
friend finder, peer-to- imaging (geotagging)
peer, personal
security, tracking
Business Applications
Asset tracking, billing, field services, sales
force automation, surveys, real
estate
NN4D.com
16. Coupling location features with new device technologies
Enhanced UI experience: Touch screens,
Enhanced visuals, Audio content, 3D landmarks,
Aerial imagery
Enhanced input experience: Haptics
(Programmable tactile feedback, Immersion),
Adaptive recommendation engines, motion sensors
Enhanced graphics & imaging
experience: 3D Graphics Acceleration, OCR
Convergence: New categories of devices
(MIDs), smaller processors / more capacity
Multimodality: Adjusting to your context
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20. Mobile, Set Top Box and PC based social
networking with User Generated Content
Combines usergenerated content with social networking, search
and locationbased applications. Users share, view and upload
pictures, video, text and POIs with geotags to place and track
each other. Find people and places, points of interest, map and
get directions to them all, whether they are using cable set top
boxes, their laptops or mobile phones.
21. Central to this solution is how taxis are ordered, using time and
location information for requested trips sent by mobile phones to a
brokering server. Taxi companies make offers and client chooses
most desired bids by phone.
Expanding location
advertising opportunities
with info on persons and
businesses contacted while
using the phone
22. Platforms Supported for LBS App Development
• NAVTEQ digital map data are platform agnostic
• APIs available from many partners supporting both large and
small niche markets
•Geospatial platform partners, technology partners, handset manufacturers
• NAVTEQ product sets provide direct support for app development
in four major areas:
Web
• NAVTEQ® maps are everywhere
• Currently available in 77 countries
and territories on 6 continents
APP • Free sample map data for global
GIS Mobile dev community
DEVELOPMENT
• Access to APIs and LBS content
• Downloads, webinars, discussion
forums on NN4D.com
Database
23. www.NN4D.com – Home for LBS developers
Free sample map data APIs and LBS content
Access to leading platforms & tools Business Development Support
NAVTEQ Partner Zones
NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge
NAVTEQ Connections Portal
NN4D Solutions Catalog
Fast-Pitch Events for Funding
24. Free sample map data
NAVTEQ® map data
NN4D members gain access to free
map data samples available in multiple
formats. NAVTEQ maps are platform
agnostic and built to a single
worldwide specification for easier
development and integration into
global applications.
NN4D.com
25. Mapping APIs and LBS Content
MapTP Zone
The MapTP Zone is the resource site
for developers looking to develop
powerful mapping applications using
NAVTEQ MapTP APIs. Developers
can build exciting interactive mapping
applications with several APIs:
AJAX API 2.0
Web Services (XML/ SOAP)
APIs for the Java Platform and C++
Component Interface for S60 (C++ for Find tutorials, examples with
Symbian OS) complete source code, demos
and documentation at NN4D.com
NN4D.com
26. Useful links
• www.NN4D.com – Everything you need for LBS app development
• http://www.galileomasters.eu/
• http://www.galileomasters.eu/index.php?anzeige=special_prizes_navteq
– Info about the NAVTEQ Special Topic Prize
• http://developer.navteq.com/site/global/20_industryreference/112_industr
– Download NAVTEQ presentations for ESNC 2009 events
• www.LBSChallenge.com
• www.nn4d.com/maptpzone – MapTP Zone
• www.nn4d.com/lpa – LocationPoint™ Advertising
• www.nn4d.com/forums
• www.nn4d.com/webinars
• www.nn4d.com/blogs
• www.nn4d.com/knowledgebase
• www.nn4d.com/events
• http://twitter.com/navteq
• http://nn4d.blogspot.com
27. Welcome to
www.NN4D.com
– Home for LBS developers
Editor's Notes
NAVTEQ maps are everywhere! We are uniquely positioned across multiple growth markets throughout the world. Our markets are diverse and growing, driven in part by the rapid commercialization of GPS technology.GPS technology simply provides a latitude and a longitude, but a digital map gives context and meaning to this information.It is important to note that we are a content company, not a software company. Simply stated, our business is to license our maps for use by our customers in their software applications.We are device agnostic and are not constrained by any particular technology.NAVTEQ
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Galileo is a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) currently being built (still in trial phase) by EU and the European Space Agency (ESA). It is complementary to the U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS) and the Russian GLONASS but aimed at reducing Europe’s dependency on American and Russian satellite signals (managed by the defense industry). The European Commission has expressed an ambition to have 30 satellites launched in 2013.<number>
The European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) is a competition to stimulate the ideas generation, incubation and development of applications and services made possible by the European satellite navigation system Galileo. Through this initiative, the companies and institutions in the industry that support it will help stimulate innovation in preparation for Galileo deployment.App ideas entered into the competition do not have to be based on Galileo but can also use the current GPS since they are complementary. (Handsets in the future will have two chips.)NAVTEQ Special Topic PrizeApplications must be accessed through wireless devices and use dynamic positioning technology and importantly benefit from the location context provided by the NAVTEQ map.ESNC complements LBS Challenge<number>
12 Month incubation program includingFree access to NT data, content and services for one 1 year.Partner business developmentTech support – personal technical consultantBusiness match making – access to partner ecosystem
I was going to say that “the sky’s the limit” but it isn’t these days, is it? ;-)With satellite communication, the possibilities are endless for new location-aware applications in many different fields. Let me give you some examples of LBS applications that exist today.<number>
NT is focused on promoting the innovative development of location aware / based applications and services across the entire application spectrumInc NAVIGATION, SOCIAL NETWORKING, GIS, FLEET MANAGEMENT, GAMING ETCNavigation: includes routing and turn-by-turn directions; POI look-up, traffic and pedestrian applications.Content: use of content – directories, search, weather, event info, POI info – from NAVTEQ or 3rd parties – that enhance the functionality or is core to the application.Entertainment/Leisure: gaming, location-based imaging, athletic, travel, and tourism applications.Enterprise: applications improving business efficiencies or enabling revenue generation, optimal use of fixed or mobile assets, fleet management, geomarketing, GIS, internet local search and advertising.Social Networking: peer and “find me” applications that enable a person to actively communicate where one is or will be, or applications related to child/senior monitoring, safety alerts, and location.New revenue opportunities: Location Based Advertising: use of mobile advertising that combines precision proximity, contextual and demographic targeting, deep location-based advertising engagement, and the delivery of mobile coupons.<number><number>
User experience advances in several areasIntegrating LBS with all your senses by taking advantage of interesting new technology.5 key bullets:Enhanced UI experienceEnhanced input experienceEnhanced graphics & imaging experienceConvergenceMultimodality- Bridging the virtual and physical worlds- Integrating more and more content in apps- Gaming typically the first area to adopt new technology and embrace this- New trend in mobile gaming: Typical 3D racing games which used to be 3D models of racing tracks are getting more advanced by integrating / real-life map data used + real-time traffic updates => location-based gaming is not just about treasure hunts anymore; dynamic location content gives completely new opportunities- Extended use of imaging capability with OCR (optical character recognition) coupled with location-data => new search & database apps using location metadataAdvanced Programmable Haptics: Far More than the Conventional On and Off BuzzUnderstanding of both simple and complex tactile information is easier when haptic feedback can be varied to provide intuitive clues, according to the application. For example,an alert for a calendar reminder needs to feel completely different than an alert signaling receipt of a text message. Today’s technology allows haptic feedback to be varied infrequency, waveform, amplitude, and duration. Further, it provides precise control of these parameters allowing nearly unlimited—and memorable—variation.User Interface Advances:3D graphics & audio content will differentiate devices and servicesLandmarks & aerial imagery provide more detail & personalizationAudio content with use of wireless earpieces will change how services can be offered through devicesPersonal computing is getting smaller! There is an explosion of Netbooks and MID’s in the market. People want to have a small device that can be used for common mobile computing needs. These devices are also being shipped with GPS capability, opening up lots of opportunities and new markets for developers to work in.MIDs represent a new category of devices targeted to deliver the best Internet experience in pocketable form factors. Intel is helping drive the MID category with the Intel® Atom™ processor – Intel’s smallest processor designed from the ground-up for high performance, full software and Internet compatibility with dramatically lower power.
skobbler GmbH from Germany was awarded the Grand Prize Winner for LBS Challenge in EMEA for its submission in the Content category.
First Runner-Up: PH Informática SA, Portugal: (Content Category) City Guide is a dynamic LBS content guide that allows access to information in real time related to a user’s unique profile. Once subscribed, the system becomes your personal guide by giving automatic information based on user interest whilst navigating by car, foot or public transportation.
Second Runner-Up: Carbon Hero Ltd, UK: (Enterprise Category) Carbon Diem is the first Carbon computer by the National Science Museum of London. This is an application that uses GPS technology to track a person’s carbon footprint based on his/her transportation choices. It tracks your travel and informs you as to how much energy you could save while using different means of transportation (walking, bus, train, car etc). It also keeps track of all the places that you have visited.20
Convergence and location-based entertainment (social networking) exampleGyPSii launched publicly at Mobile World Congress 2008 and were able to use the NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge as part of their launch campaign. Since then, the relationship with NAVTEQ and its membership in NAVTEQ Network for Developers (NN4D) has contributed to GyPSii’s LBS product development.Today, GyPSii is a global service, available across a broad range of mobile platforms and devices, including Symbian OS™, Windows Mobile and RIM BlackBerry™, Apple iPhone and browser-based Internet-connected devices.Samsung recently launched navigateVia based on GyPSii (http://innovator.samsungmobile.com/honor/honorMbrView.do?honorId=221&platformId=1). navigateVia is a location portal that extends the LBS experience of owners of Samsung GPS enabled Samsung phones.
Taxi4me (Grand Prize Winner Americas in 2009) I think illustrates well the changing role of the map - Solutions can now be driven by digital map and content, even when not displayed.DialPlus (First Runner-Up of LBSC Americas in 2009) makes use of new business models - Location based advertising creates value for advertisers and users.
NAVTEQ supports all the major platforms and development environments on the market, through APIs and partner offerings available from NAVTEQ’s developer support program and global community, NAVTEQ Network for Developers (NN4D). Our map data can be accessed in many different ways.NAVTEQ provides direct support for development in four major areas:Mobile development for Symbian OS, Windows .NET Compact Framework as well as a Web Services interface which can be used on any connected platform, e.g. Java ME and iPhoneWeb development through AJAX and Java SE/EEGIS development through Windows .NET and JAPI (Java API)Database development through providing map data in a Relational Database Format for easy import into any SQL databaseOur www.nn4d.com website contains information, technical docs & guidelines for all of these. Join today – it’s free.There are also APIs available from many other NAVTEQ partners & players on the market, supporting both small and large niche markets, including from geospatial platform partners, technology partners, handset manufacturers…e.g. Autodesk & deCarta provide APIs for Web developers and use of Web servicese.g. ESRI, MapInfo provide APIs for GIS (they are the biggest players in this space)Some of these have Partner Zones on NN4D (deCarta, Autodesk, Wavemarket, Forum Nokia, Sony Ericsson etc)
Message:NN4D helps with all the technical resources you would expect from a developer program: product & technical support, in our case by providing sample map data to developers so they can get started and test functionality of their apps, technical white papers, access to leading geospatial platforms, tools and application programming interfaces (APIs), discussion forums etc plus also business dev support.Benefits of joining NN4D:Accelerate development of innovative LBS solutionsIncrease knowledge through NAVTEQ experts and an active online communityReduce development costs through free resources from NAVTEQ and partner companiesGain exposure for your company and products through NN4D business development resources
SUMMARYNAVTEQ is committed to the long term stimulation and promotion of location aware / based services throughSupporting the ESNC competition to incubate potential new commercial applicationsRunning the annual Global LBS Challenge to take applications through to commercial launchSupport provided through NN4DConnections portal for promotion of partner applications to NAVTEQ industry partners<number>