A very early build of our upcoming "Walk & Ride" app for the iPod Touch and iPhone was submitted to the 2010 Navteq Global LBS Challenge last week. We generously called this lab-release Paris Hilton build due to the Navteq Paris offices acting as an incoming office for all EMEA submissions - hoping this would push our page impressions over here ;_)
Kudos to all programmers, cartographs, engineers, testers and the loved ones at home missing us during the hectic last hours!
Will be interesting to see how this years contest works out. In 2009, Hamburg, Germany based skobbler won the EMEA Grand Prize - applauded and laudated being the smartest solution "using dynamic positioning technology and NAVTEQ maps". Besides skobblers well earned and enormous success in the Appstore, they seem to face some adversities.
Keep fingers crossed for United Maps' "Walk & Ride" - for the 2010 LBSC we submit a solution that doesn't easily fit into any of the standard categories as it tackles navigation and mapping from a fresh perspective.
