Check out the new NAVTEQ Smart APIs for Mobile (BETA)
At MWC, NAVTEQ launched their new Smart™ APIs and made them available in beta, starting with the iPhone. Intrigued by the “Smart” term we asked them what it was all about.
So there are five core APIs in this version of NAVTEQ Smart APIs for Mobile: Mapping, Routing, Advertising, Search and Feedback APIs. These APIs “give you easy access to the world’s strongest map, traffic, and location content, advanced features like traffic-enabled routing” and will “allow you to customize your apps, brand your apps, and better monetize your apps.”
“Some early chats with iPhone developers, tell us that the experience in “Xcode is good and APIs are easy to use” (let us know if you have any thoughts on that). Obviously you better judge for yourself and download them along with technical documentation, tutorials, sample source code, etc at www.nn4d.com/smartapis. You’ll find all you expect from Smart APIs… optimized for mobile, offering new advanced map tiling technology, thin client...