deCarta, the location-based services company which we know already have some navigation deal in place with LG, announced a partnership with the second large electronics maker in Korea – Samsung, to provide developers with location geoservices on the new bada platform.
As a result, developers will be able to add maps, location-based search and routing instructions to any application designed for bada-enabled mobile phones. In that sense, you could think of deCarta’s offering like Google Maps API on the iPhone.
Among the APIs involved are those that invoke maps, mobile local search, vehicle and pedestrian routing, geocoding and reverse geocoding. These services are built on deCarta’s high-volume Hosted Web Services (HWS) geospatial platform…
In a nutshell, don’t be surprised when you see a map widget appearing in a TouchWIZ Samsung phone in the near future…