Micello
Acquisition in 2018
Micello, Inc. is a company specializing in the development of indoor venue maps and navigation solutions for a diverse range of clients, including retailers, healthcare organizations, and application developers worldwide. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with additional offices in various locations globally, Micello offers an extensive collection of indoor maps for environments such as shopping malls, airports, college campuses, and hospitals. The company's products include JavaScript APIs that empower developers to integrate indoor maps into their applications, providing features like custom graphics, overlays, and user-specific information. Micello's technology is designed to enhance location-based services by delivering accurate and detailed indoor navigation content, thereby improving users' experiences in complex indoor environments. As of early 2018, Micello operates as a subsidiary of HERE Global B.V.
Trapster
Acquisition in 2010
Trapster is an application that crowdsources information on the whereabouts of speedtraps, giving out notifications as drivers approach thos traps. Users report traps by pressing a button on your phone, or calling a toll free number. Other user's phones will alert them as they approach the trap. Trapster learns the credibility of traps based on how many users agree. It also learns the credibility of each user, over time.
Trapster combines technologies such as GPS and wireless location, voice transcription, geocoding, reverse geocoding, and SMS, with a central database server. It communicates in real time, using the Internet.
Trapster supports:
* iPhone
* BlackBerry
* Android (the TMobile G1 and others)
* Nokia N95, N96, N97, 5800, E71, and other Symbian s60 phones
* Unlocked J2ME phones with GPS (for example the TMobile Sony Ericsson W370)
* Palm Pre and Windows Mobile versions coming soon!
If you don't have one of these phones you can still get text message alerts with maps on any phone that supports text messaging, and report traps that you see using our 1-800 tip line.
Mapsolute
Acquisition in 2007
Mapsolute GmbH is a developer of online mapping and geographical software, founded in 1996 and headquartered in Eschborn, Germany, with additional offices in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Finland. The company specializes in route planning and address visualization services delivered via the Internet, as well as its proprietary mapping technology, MapTP. Mapsolute distributes its products primarily through partners across Europe. In 2007, the company became a subsidiary of NAVTEQ Corp.