TeleAtlas — GPS Obsessed

TeleAtlas Now Drawing On TomTom’s Historical Average Speed Database

by Justin

Nice to see being that being subsidiary to TomTom is proving fruitful for TeleAtlas. In a press release early this morning, TeleAtlas announced that they will be using TomTom’s huge speed profiles database to provide better routing and estimated arrival times for customers.

Much like NAVTEQ’s Traffic Patterns, the service will be available later this year, providing a better navigation experience by drawing on over one trillion speed measurements submitted by TomTom users over the past 2 years (in 25 different countries). Says the release,

Today this speed profile database already provides highly accurate information about actual average speeds for every five minutes of the day on any day of the week on all of the roads in 23 European countries and 90 percent of the roads in the United States. To achieve this kind of accuracy, those 18 million kilometers of roads had to be driven and measured on average more than 2,000 times at different times of the day and during different days of the week.

By using a system of historical average speeds, TeleAtlas will now be available to route users taking into account such things as traffic lights, speed bumps and even pedestrian traffic generated by school lunch breaks!

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September 25, 2008 No Comments

Mio, Navman PNDs Stick With TeleAtlas Maps

by Justin

MiTAC and TeleAtlas have been tight since 2005 and the successful partnership looks like it will coninue. MiTAC, the parent of the Mio and Navman PND brands will extend its relationship with TeleAtlas for another three years. Essentially, and I’ll state the obvious here, all Mio and Navman PND’s released in the next three years will feature TeleAtlas mapping products.

The agreement gives MiTAC full use of TeleAtlas’ 74 countries of mapping data, TeleAtlas 3D Landmarks, TeleAtlas Digital Elevation Model, TeleAtlas Safety Cameras, and a database of 30 million POIs.

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August 28, 2008 No Comments

TeleAtlas And Google Partner For The Greater Good Of Maps: User-Generated Map Edits Key To Deals Success

by Justin

For the next five years, any Google map-based or navigational services for the mobile, desktop, or web environments will use TeleAtlas maps. This includes popular Google properties such as Google Maps and Google Earth. The deal nets Google access to TeleAtlas maps and dynamic content for more than 200 countries around the world, and TeleAtlas will receive access to map edits from Google’s huge user base, in essence crowdsourcing the accuracy and relevance of future TeleAtlas maps. Exactly how much money will change hands is undisclosed so far, but this deal is worth a pretty penny in value to the end user-you and me. This partnership will mean better maps from TeleAtlas, owned by TomTom, which will run the gamut from Google Maps on the web to TomTom PND’s firmly mounted on your car’s windshield. We’ll keep you updated as we hear more.

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