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June 2011
Create Advanced 3D Games/Navigation Apps with NAVTEQ 3D Content
Visioglobe®’s Latest SDK Available on NN4D
Publish Your App by June 30 for a Chance to Win $5K; May Winner Announced!
Deadline for Entering Your LBS Idea in the European Satellite Navigation Competition is June 30!
Spime Talks about the Many Benefits of Working with NN4D
Re-classify Your Business or App!
NAVTEQ LocationPoint™ Advertising Product Update:  Version 2.3 Released!
Top 10 Downloads for May: 3D City Models Demo Video, Enhanced 3D City Models Drive Experiences and More 
Ask the NN4D: Answers to Your Technical Questions
Media of the Month: NAVTEQ® Developer Day in Bengaluru and New Delhi, India
NAVTEQ® App Warehouse "App of the Month"
FAQs of the Month: VisioDevKit Special Edition
NN4D Showcases at the First Annual Israel Mobile Summit and NAVTEQ® Developer Day Tel Aviv
NAVTEQ® Developer Day: Silicon Valley and the Muther! of All Hackathons!

Main Headlines
Create Advanced 3D Games/Navigation Apps with NAVTEQ 3D Content

NAVTEQ's broad portfolio of 3D visual content products enables applications to:

  • Deliver the right content to consumers at the right time (location-based)
  • Enable enhanced navigation through visual guidance
  • Provide the user with meaningful visual cues
  • Feature realistic and advanced game scenes by integrating real-life 3D map data

In addition, developers can create advanced 3D games and navigation apps with NAVTEQ's 3D visual content using software development kits (SDKs) from Imagination Technologies and Visioglobe.


Visioglobe®’s Latest SDK Available on NN4D

Enables App Development with 3D Map Rendering and Indoor Navigation Capabilities Using NAVTEQ® Data

Visioglobe ScreenshotsNN4D has released an update on of the 3D rendering SDK from Visioglobe® on NN4D.com. The latest SDK, VisioDevKit 1.1, enables developers to create mobile navigation apps not only for outdoor use with nice 3D rendering effects using NAVTEQ® Visual Content, but also for indoor navigation in many of the largest shopping malls, using NAVTEQ Destination Maps™.


Publish Your App by June 30 for a Chance to Win $5K; May Winner Announced!

Get your apps noticed today in NAVTEQ® App Warehouse

Deadline for Entering Your LBS Idea in the European Satellite Navigation Competition is June 30!

Submit your idea for an LBS solution into the 2011 European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) and you can win prizes just for being a creative genius. But hurry, the competition closes June 30, 2011.


Spime Talks about the Many Benefits of Working with NN4D

Don’t miss our new video featuring Shankar Narayanan and Gary Mendel of Spime, a provider of white-labeled, location-based software solutions, as they talk about the many benefits of working with NN4D and NAVTEQ® map data and content.  Hear how Spime has received unique exposure via NN4D's co-marketing, networking and partnering opportunities, and learn about the advantages of NN4D's global reach combined with its local, personal focus and high-quality technical support, content and staff.  By the end, you'll understand why Spime Founder and CEO Shankar Narayanan strongly recommends that every developer should be an NN4D member.

Watch the video here!

Tech Soup
Re-classify Your Business or App!

NN4D Classified Ads has been created to allow NN4D members to easily exchange services and information in a cluttered world.  By simply posting an ad on NN4D Classified Ads with your desired business or developer-related request, you are opening the door to discovery by any one of our over 53,000 NN4D members and increasing your chances of getting noticed. 

Try it out today!


NAVTEQ LocationPoint™ Advertising Product Update:  Version 2.3 Released!

NAVTEQ's LocationPoint™ Advertising (LPA) product uses location and context to provide valued advertising to consumers while sharing the revenue with you, the developer.  This product continues to grow in features and functionality as seen by the latest update below.  For more info on this application, see our white paper and technical documentation.

Tech Soup
Top 10 Downloads for May: 3D City Models Demo Video, Enhanced 3D City Models Drive Experiences and More 
 
The following are links to the top 10 most downloaded NN4D technical content for May 2011....

Ask the NN4D: Answers to Your Technical Questions

Each month, an NN4D technical consultant will answer popular questions on map development. This month Ashish Bedekar answers the following question:

Why should mobile developers care about cloud services/cloud computing?

Columns
Media of the Month: NAVTEQ® Developer Day in Bengaluru and New Delhi, India

In this month’s installment, we take a look back at both of the NAVTEQ® Developer Day events that took place in Bengaluru and New Delhi, India on April 26 and April 29.  We have created a post-event video and also launched a post-event page on NN4D.  You can read more details about these events (including all the links) and watch the video on this month’s blog post pick: NAVTEQ Developer Day India, Post-show Wrap-up.

- Greg Rose, NN4D technical evangelist


NAVTEQ® App Warehouse "App of the Month"
 
Each month the NN4D News highlights an app currently available in the NAVTEQ® App Warehouse. The featured app this month is deCarta Maps 3D by deCarta.

The NAVTEQ App Warehouse is a free matchmaking portal that offers free business development and marketing services on a larger scale. The portal is designed to introduce developers of location-based apps to commercial buyers, such as handset manufacturers and network operators, and will formalize our co-marketing efforts.

FAQs of the Month: VisioDevKit Special Edition
 
This month, we are doing a special edition of FAQs of the Month and highlighting questions related to VisioDevKit by Visioglobe®.
Industry Events
NN4D Showcases at the First Annual Israel Mobile Summit and NAVTEQ® Developer Day Tel Aviv

 NAVTEQ Network for Developers™ Partner Manager, EMEA, Pia Vuohelainen opened Israel Mobile Summit (IMS) in Tel Aviv with the keynote address, “LBS 3.0: From Location to Contextual Awareness,” to more than 350 mobile industry attendees.  The event also introduced its’ developer app competition, “Innovation Showcase”.  Pia and several other judges selected Piticup as the grand prize winner with their augmented reality driving and real-time collision detection app.


NAVTEQ® Developer Day: Silicon Valley and the Muther! of All Hackathons!

We’re holding our first NAVTEQ® Developer Day: Silicon Valley event on June 23 at the Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, California, and we’ve got what you need to compete in the ever-expanding LBS market.  We’ve teamed up with our partners Bing, deCarta, Esri, Verizon and WIP to bring you an action-packed day you won’t want to miss.

Visit NN4D and check out the NN4D Blog for our latest news.