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Customizable Navigation Application
Eclipse Your Time to Market with a Customized or "Out–of–the–Box" Look and Feel
Broad market opportunity is driving the need for distinctive product differentiation and fast time–to–market for personal navigation devices (PND's). deCarta's customizable, non–branded Navigation Application uniquely enables OEMs and manufacturers of PNDs to quickly customize and specifically tailor the personality, the look, feel, sounds, and the voice of the turn–by–turn navigation application to appeal to targeted demographics in mass markets.
Customize for Brand and Target Market
deCarta's customizable Navigation Application also offers manufacturers a fully–featured product that can be used as delivered, or customized to reflect a unique look that reinforces the manufacturer's brand identity and at the same time offer a full–featured navigation system that can be delivered to consumers in a way that has been personalized to their preferences, i.e., youth–oriented, country/western, hip–hop, etc.
Tremendously Customizable
- Colors and styles of 2D and 3D maps
- Colors of buttons, controls, and background, "splash" and landing screens
- Text used for menus and screen prompts
- Icons (vehicle, origin, destination, waypoint, POIs, button and control icons)
- Pickup trucks to racing cars
- Recorded voice prompts and guidance and advisory instructions
- Choice of supported text–to–speech engines to support announcement of city and street names in advisory and maneuver audio prompts
Elegant and Efficient Usability
- All elements presented on the screen are "active" and selectable via a touch screen with behaviors that match user expectations
- Touch–and–drag maps
- Manual and automatic zoom with desired zoom level automatically remembered
- Single touch on the map and it becomes a destination
- Easy, intuitive, and efficient menu structure with quick return to the main menu
- Easy address entry to select the destination
- Efficient selection and display of Points of Interest without screen clutter
- Save current location as a desirable future destination
- 2D, 3D map views, heading–up or North–up orientation with directional compass
Developed with the Leading Location Technology
deCarta's Navigation Application employs deCarta's market–leading Rich Map Engine, the same software platform known for its speed and accuracy that leading Internet and wireless LBS applications at Verizon, Sprint, Cingular, TeliaSonera, Google and Ask.com have relied on.
- Very accurate routes based on the most tested routing algorithms in the world
- Proven in major internet sites
- Flexible routing files (i.e., waypoints, shortest, fastest; including/excluding toll roads, freeway, ferry, tunnels, car / train)
- Multiple language support available
- Ability to manage text–to–speech engine (optional)
- Compatible with connected navigation
- Future support for speed/safety camera and real–time traffic incidents and alternative routes
- Support for millions of Points of Interest
- Fast off–road and re–routing detection
- Miss a turn and the route is recalculated right from the current location
Navigation Application Screen Detail Examples
deCarta's Navigation Application is built on the deCarta Navigation SDK. The Navigation SDK is a software developer's environment that enables easier, efficient development of a customized navigation system for PNDs. The Navigation Application builds on the core functionality of the SDK and provides a complete user interface.
Technical Details
- Map Coverage: Global coverage from NAVTEQ and Tele Atlas
- Complete map coverage from the leading suppliers of street map databases
- Display text, recorded voice and text–to speech is currently supported in 6 languages: US English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Castilian Spanish
- Contact your deCarta sales representative for the availability of additional languages
- Text–to–speech engine support: A variety of text–to–speech engines are support through industry standard APIs. Reference text–to–speech engine:
- RealSpeak Solo from Nuance
- Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 or 6.0
- Microsoft Windows CE Core 5.0 or 6.0
- Microsoft Windows XP
- Processors: Intel x86 and compatibles, MIPS, ARM, and Hitachi SuperH processors
- 300 MHz minimum recommended
- 3.5 QVGA or 4.0 inch widescreen WQVGA screen
- RAM 32MB
- 2 GB Flash memory
Options
Contact your deCarta sales representative for the availability of support for:
- Safety cameras: Receive and report alerts when there are safety cameras coming up, fixed or mobile
- TMC Real–time traffic: Up–to–the–minute traffic information, jam alerts and road condition warnings and ability to create alternative routes
