Idevio’s Open Map Browser

Today is the official announcement of the Locago map browser from Sweden’s Idevio. It’s being shown in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress. You may have heard of it’s RaveGeo vector data compression and streaming technology. Most of the company’s customers are from Europe - Ericsson, SAAB and several military users.

Locago is a free downloadable platform for end-users, but really the company is offering a delivery mechanism for mobile and or location-based apps and content.  The product/apps will be available in Q2 and as I understand it, some will be free others, for fee. My first thought was it was along the lines of uLocate’s WHERE. However, the press release does not really highlight the benefits of the platform beyond that it uses RaveGeo.