Carmenta Mobile – The future of Mobile Maps

Wow, I just found an impressive video about a navigation engine which seems to make a large step in mobile navigation.

“Carmenta Mobile” is a high performance map engine for mobile phones, targeting companies that want to provide advanced Location Based Services applications around maps, routing and geocoding.

Maps are able to show real 3D buildings and landmarks and can be zoomed and turned steplessly – amazing!

Furthermore, the video at the bottom doesn’t show a normal map overview, but a Google Earth like look of the landscape. Only the close up view when the particular streets must be seen reminds of a normal navigation system.

Seeing the engine embedded in navigation software would be a large step in mobile navigation. I can’t wait to get my hands on it! Carmenta announced to present their engine at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Have a look at the video at the bottom and gape!

Carmenta Mobile can be easily embedded into a mobile application as it provides a rich set of features such as:

• • 2D and 3D maps with 3D buildings and landmarks
• • Onboard and/or offboard (loaded from server) maps
• • Maps as images or vector data

Carmenta Mobile can be used to develop a wide range of applications on a variety of mobile phones:

• • In-car personal navigation
• • Pedestrian personal navigation
• • Friend finder
• • Proximity search, e.g. answering the question “where is the closest restaurant”
• • Location based games
• • Tracking
• • Fleet management

Video:

More Information: Carmenta Mobile