Learn the latest on location-based apps – NAVTEQ Developer Day

The NAVTEQ Developer Day will be held on June 23 at the Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, California. The free event is sponsored by NAVTEQ and Bing. This is a great opportunity to learn the latest tips and tricks on creating compelling location-based mobile, web, and enterprise apps.


The day’s event will offer a wealth of information, including:
•    NAVTEQ LocationPoint advertising APIs and how to monetize your app
•    Bing Maps SDKs and geocoding APIs
•    ArcGIS APIs and SDKs
•    Mobile APIs for Android, HTML5, iPhone, J2ME, and Samsung bada

There will be lots of code, tons of demos, and plenty of hands-on support. At the end of the day, you can stick around to hack away with the APIs, get some feedback, and win some cool prizes.

ESRI is changing the name

So the classic thinking is Esri can’t figure out what to name anything. You either put the Prefix “Arc” in front of something, use the company name Esri (though you’d be better at using ESRI for the classic touch) or put the phrase ArcGIS in front of any simple word. Those days of wacky are over apparently as there is now a guide to the new naming convention for Esri products.
 


 

Name Prior to ArcGIS 10.1 New Name
ArcGIS Desktop ArcGIS for Desktop
ArcInfo ArcGIS for Desktop Advanced
ArcEditor ArcGIS for Desktop Standard
ArcView ArcGIS for Desktop Basic
ArcGIS Server ArcGIS for Server
ArcGIS Mobile ArcGIS for Windows Mobile
ArcGIS Mobile SDK ArcGIS SDK for Windows Mobile
Esri Data and Maps Data and Maps for ArcGIS
Esri StreetMap Premium StreetMap Premium for ArcGIS
ArcGIS Data Appliance Data Appliance for ArcGIS
ArcGIS Mapping for SharePoint ArcGIS for SharePoint

Thus the key word is now ArcGIS and it may or may not be “for” something else. Because as Esri points out, “The reason for these modifications is to reinforce the fact that, regardless of where and how ArcGIS is used, it is the same system.” Natch!  My favorite which isn’t listed here is the new ArcGIS for the Internet which was previously known as ArcGIS.com.