Wayfinder
Wayfinder Systems provided smartphone navigation for millions of users with an end-to-end solution including both a highly scalable LBS platform running on clusters of Linux servers as well as clients running on the then common smartphone platforms. When the company was closed down by the owner Vodafone they provided permission and support to release the solution as open source software.
Basic Information
- Category: information technology
- Website: http://www.wayfinder.org/
Documented Facts
- Industry (Wikidata; date unspecified): information technology
- Headquarters location (Wikidata; date unspecified): Malmö
- Country (Wikidata; date unspecified): United States
Evidence and Sources
- Wayfinder — Official Website (official)
- Wikidata Q4354420, revision 2534601937 (knowledge-base)
- Wikidata label: Q11661, revision 2557591708 (knowledge-base)
- Wikidata label: Q2211, revision 2553494916 (knowledge-base)
- Wikidata label: Q30, revision 2556188301 (knowledge-base)
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- Citation profile API: https://brandsource.ai/api/brands/wayfinder/citation-profile
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- Data status: Enriched
- Profile completeness: Source-backed profile (91/100)
- Indexing directive: index, follow, max-image-preview:large
- Recorded profile date: 2026-04-21
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AI summary
Wayfinder Systems provided smartphone navigation for millions of users with an end-to-end solution including both a highly scalable LBS platform running on clusters of Linux servers as well as clients running on the then common smartphone platforms. When the company was closed down by the owner Vodafone they provided permission and support to release the solution as open source software.
Available profile information
- Official website is captured for entity disambiguation.
- 1 official source linked for verification.
- 4 supporting sources linked.
- 3 structured facts available for extraction.
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