2010 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge®

deCarta is proud to be a Global Sponsor of the 2010 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge®.

A sponsor for the last seven years, and a Global Sponsor for the second year in a row, deCarta will provide contestants with our latest LBS development tools including the deCarta Mobile™ platform, and the chance of winning a year's FREE licensing of either Drill Down Server or Hosted Web Services. Get started today and WIN!

Millions in prizes and priceless exposure await enterprising developers.

deCarta Powers Winners

With a long lineage of providing the geospatial platform to previous NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge finalists and winners, and as a charter sponsor, deCarta wants to welcome you to the 2010 competition.

Last year, deCarta's technology provided the geospatial functionality for many of the mobile applications receiving finalist awards for the 2009 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge-Americas, including the grand prize winner!

The NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge is under way, once again offering developers around the world the chance to compete for an invaluable prize pool consisting of cash, map data licenses, sponsor licenses and services, and mobile devices, including the iPhone. Now in its eighth year, the LBS Challenge has expanded into five regions: Europe-Middle East-Africa (EMEA), North America, South America, Asia-Pacific (APAC) and India.

The NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge calls on developers to build innovative LBS applications that work with mobile phones and/or wireless handheld devices using dynamic positioning technology and NAVTEQ map data.

Entries can be submitted in five categories-Content, Enterprise, Entertainment, Navigation and Social Networking. Winners are chosen by an elite panel of judges comprised of major wireless carriers, industry experts and venture capitalists.

Development Support

• Participants receive complimentary access to NAVTEQ map data as well as tools and platforms from leading location companies to help develop cutting-edge LBS solutions.
• deCarta also has a free Developer Zone workplace for you to design and develop your application on the deCarta platform, visit www.decarta.com/developer.

PRIZES, PRIZES, PRIZES!

Cash and Prizes: The NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge features a sizeable prize pool valued at over $10 million US in cash and data licenses.

deCarta Offers HUGE Prizes to Winners

deCarta will again be awarding one year (ARV: $250,000) worth of licensing of our Drill Down Server® geospatial software platform or Hosted Web Services to the Grand Prize Winners and the top two Runners-Up in each region.

Key Dates

	EMEA	N. America	India	S. America	APAC
Registration Opens	August 10, 2009	August 10, 2009	August 10, 2009	August 10, 2009	August 10, 2009
Registration Closes	November 6	November 20	December 18	February 26, 2010	March 5
Solution Submission Deadline	November 20	January 8	January 22	March 26, 2010	April 9
Preliminary (Semifinal) Judging	December 16-17	February 24-25	March 10-11	April 28-29, 2010	May 12-13
Final Judging	February 14, 2010	March 30, 2010	April 29, 2010	May 26, 2010	June 14, 2010
Award Ceremony	February 14	March 30	April 29	May 27, 2010	June 14
Award Ceremony Location	Mobile World Congress Barcelona	Where 2.0 San Jose	New Delhi	Geo Summit Sao Paulo	CommunicAsia Singapore

For more information and to register for the LBS Challenge using deCarta tools, please visit www.LBSChallenge.com.

Click here for FREE registration on the deCarta devZone.

About the NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge

First launched in 2003, the NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge is a world-wide competition conducted by NAVTEQ Network for Developers™ (NN4D), daring application developers around the world to build innovative location-based services (LBS) using dynamic positioning technology and NAVTEQ® maps. Integrating the accuracy and richness of NAVTEQ digital map data and LBS content facilitates the timely evolution of the next wave of location-aware applications. The Global LBS Challenge has become the premier event in the LBS industry for shining the spotlight on global LBS innovation and opportunity. Over 32% of the finalists from the past six years have gone on to receive venture capital funding or launch commercially-distributed applications. For more information on this year's competition, go to www.LBSChallenge.com.