Mapping has become part of the everyday life of individual consumers and companies alike. Today we consult websites to calculate an itinerary or print a map, to “virtually” visit an area using services such as Google Earth or Geoportail, to program our on-board navigation systems to take us to a destination, and the list goes on.
These uses, available to the general public, also influence the way users access and manipulate mapping data.
Today, it is no longer simply a question of making maps available, but also of being able to access at any time, from anywhere whatever the terminal (computer, information station, mobile PDA, etc.) or Network.

The key questions for geomatics concern :
How best to store, manage, and render accessible these data with the most useful content and how to propose new services ?

The technology developed by Newscape provides the most efficient response to these questions: unique, patented, and recognised by numerous international industry actors, it enables the implementation of mobile interactive
applications relying on large volumes of data, while rendering their manipulation surprisingly fluid (view the demonstrations).

The main benefits of this technology, known as Vectorial Multi-Resolution, are to :

• offer a user experience on a mobile terminal that is practically identical to
  that offered by the applications operating on a fixed computer;
• avoid non-useful data transfer over mobile networks. Even though evolving technologies such as Wimax or LTE are to be deployed, the volume of data transferred is continually increasing, and  it is crucial to optimise this to enable mobile applications to remain reactive,
• authorise, at an equivalent level of energy consumption, more powerful and faster applications.
  The autonomy of mobile terminals is a critical factor in the adoption and development of new modes of use, and new powerful mobile applications have no real utility if they can only operate for short ten-minute periods before the mobile terminal’s limited power reserves have been consumed.

Newscape addresses the sector of Location Based Services (LBS) and more specifically that of geolocalised 3D applications on mobile terminals. The technology is multi-OS (Symbian, Windows Mobile, Apple iPhone, Google Android,etc.), multi-3D (JSR 184, JSR 229, OpenGL/ES, etc.) and also operates on terminals that do not have on-board 3D accelerating chips (such as PowerVR).

The Newscape team is multi-disciplined and possesses an undeniable and widely recognised expertise in the field of development on mobile platforms. Newscape is readily available on-demand to address more specific industry problems.

Newscape owns the brand “Mobile 3D City” and heads the consortium responsible for the application of the same name (see http://www.mobile3dcity.com).