In December 2010, NAVTEQ purchased Trapster, a small company based in California that provided free information on speed traps, red-light cameras, and road hazard alerts using community-generated content. Trapster had been a finalist in NAVTEQ’s 2008 Global LBS Challenge. A NAVTEQ spokesperson said that "NAVTEQ believes that community-generated data has a critical part to play in location content".[11]