Tele Atlas to speed LBS development for Symbian smartphones

location based services

Tele Atlas, a leading global geographic content provider, today announced a partnership with Symbian to generate joint support actions for application developers using Tele Atlas data with the Symbian OS.
In creating these developer tools Tele Atlas will bring content and experience with geo-data and location based services (LBS), while Symbian will bring operating system expertise. Support begins with a series of training materials for developers of LBS applications, including application-specific white papers and webinars on the use of Tele Atlas data in Symbian OS applications. Case studies of successful LBS developments for smartphones will provide further information and help. Where appropriate, Tele Atlas partners will be invited to demonstrate successful developments. Additional tools will follow as Tele Atlas and Symbian expand this dynamic support program.
Tele Atlas has another new initiative to stimulate implementation of successful application developments - a series of special events named The Tele Atlas Innovator Series. To begin, finalists selected from members of the Tele Atlas DeveloperLink community are being offered an opportunity to meet with Dow Jones editors and venture capitalists that wish to invest in LBS applications. This will take place at Dow Jones VentureWire’s Wireless Ventures conference in San Francisco, April 2007.
The Tele Atlas DeveloperLink program gives Internet, mobile and other next-generation application developers access to sample data and application development tools that can help bring innovative concepts to reality. DeveloperLink was designed to make it easy for application developers to establish a business relationship with Tele Atlas - the leading provider of rich, fresh, accurate data that powers the world’s most essential geographic solutions.