Rummble Wins TeleAtlas Awards Final

We were incredibly excited at Mobile World Congress to able to announce that Rummble won first place in the Tele Atlas LBS Innovators Series.

It takes time and resources to enter a competition which is run in such a professional way as the Tele Atlas innovators series, so it was even better news that the prize included 28,000 euros PLUS a pod on the Tele Atlas stand at Mobile World Congress this year – we certainly could not have attended with such a prescence otherwise and presenting ourselves under the umbrella of TeleAtlas was a real boon. The Tele Atlas staff were fantastically helpful and we had a great week; despite some less luck outside the conference venue – but more about that in another post!

We were judged based on commercial viability and innovative use of maps in the application in two categories: Market Ready, which includes commercially-ready LBS applications targeted at consumers (which our friends at Nulaz entered an won) and Disruption Innovation, for location-enhanced solutions designed to push the boundaries in the LBS market, which Rummble won.  The judges particularly liked our “Neighborhood View” functionality, which not only gives the distance of relevent content, but also the general direction – and then tracks you to the destination. For us, maps like anything else are important but should be leveraged to make life easier for users – not to just display flat data.

Semi-finalists Commandro, MobGeo, Texperts and Webwag were awarded prizes of €8,000 in cash.

Overall, if you have an innovative mapping application or are thinking of building one in 2009, we’d highly recommend you enter the competition this year.