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Marvin Hlavac
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 Posted - 26 nov. 2006 : 14:16:27
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Tele Atlas Extends Asia Pacific Coverage Lead with New Southeast Asia Maps
November 20, 2006 – Tele Atlas (FSE: TA6, EUNV: TA), a leading global provider of digital maps and dynamic content for navigation and location based solutions, today announced the availability of its integrated digital maps of Southeast Asian countries. The updated Tele Atlas MultiNet™ database includes comprehensive maps of Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand and more than 200,000 points of interest (POIs) to help personal navigation system and mobile phone users easily find places and services such as restaurants and cinemas, as well as pharmacies, dentists, doctors and car rental facilities.
The news follows Tele Atlas’ recent announcement of a license and distribution agreement with Beijing Changdi Youhao Mapping Technologies Co., Ltd., an affiliate of China-based Ritu Information Systems Inc. That agreement will give Tele Atlas Asia Pacific full map coverage of 337 Chinese cities, complete with censor codes, and put the company in a lead position in the region, with maps covering seven countries and territories and hundreds of millions of inhabitants.
“The new MultiNet Southeast Asia database is the best foundation on which to build the fully featured and highly useful navigation and location based solutions today’s consumers want,” said Tele Atlas Chief Operating Officer of Asia Pacific Mark Steele. “It meets our demanding standards for providing highly accurate, fully attributed street networks and contains the most comprehensive and up-to-date set of POIs available in the region.”
MultiNet Southeast Asia features include:
• Navigable street network data in Malaysia for the major cities of Seremban, Melaka and Pinang. Additionally, the major road network coverage has been increased to cover more than 65 percent of the population, and index areas have been included for the first time to improve addressing and geocoding;
• Updated street network data in Singapore with new and realigned geometry in the Changi and Hougang areas and house numbers for the entire country;
• Navigable street network data and newly incorporated index areas for Bangkok, covering nearly 10 percent of the population of Thailand. In addition, street network data is now available for more than half of the total population, and the interconnecting street network is complete for the entire country.
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Marvin Hlavac
Canada
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Posted - 16 déc. 2006 : 02:49:13
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Tele Atlas Establishes New Operation in Russia
Company continues expansion in Central and Eastern Europe with formation of Tele Atlas RUS
Gent, Belgium, December 14, 2006 - Tele Atlas, (FSE: TA6, EUNV: TA), a leading global provider of digital maps and dynamic content for navigation and location based solutions, today announced it has established a new company, Tele Atlas RUS. With headquarters in Moscow, Tele Atlas RUS will assume the databases and all activities of Navmaps, Russia’s leading provider of navigation maps. The new company will strengthen Tele Atlas’ operations in Russia and increase its direct interaction with suppliers and with Roskartographia, the Federal Agency of Geodesy and Cartography.
Industry observers predict there will be a dramatic boom in the consumer use of personal navigation devices (PNDs) in Russia, due to the country’s continued economic development and the government’s expected move to abolish all non security and military limitations in relation to the accuracy of spatial data. Several of Tele Atlas’ commercial partners, such as BMW, Porsche, DaimlerChrysler, Audi, Blaupunkt, Mio and Pioneer, have also started to introduce their products in Russia, and now require up-to-date, comprehensive navigation data. With the use of navigation technology by logistics management companies set to follow a similar growth path, Tele Atlas RUS is ideally placed at the forefront of these developments.
Jack Reinelt, Tele Atlas COO & Managing Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa said the move is yet another significant step forward for Tele Atlas. “Tele Atlas RUS will strengthen our leading position in Russia and Eastern Europe. Our commercial partners are continually looking for additional development in this region, and Tele Atlas RUS gives us the perfect platform to increase the content of our maps, including points of interest (POIs), navigation attributes and addresses. Tele Atlas RUS will ensure we continue to deliver the best products for this region.”
Reinelt continues: “Russia is an immense country with a population in excess of 140 million. It has a road network of almost one million kilometers and an economy growing at around 7% year on year. It is a region that Tele Atlas RUS is fully committed to developing.”
Tele Atlas and Navmaps began working together in 2004 and have already developed a navigable digital map of Russia that includes Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad and the surrounding regions, as well as the major connecting road network that joins the most important cities in the European and Asian parts of the country up to the Chinese border. The map includes tens of thousands of POIs, house numbers and navigations attributes. Tele Atlas RUS will now build on these foundations and enhance the coverage and content of the existing geographic database. |
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generalpatsajak
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Marvin Hlavac
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generalpatsajak
USA
103 Posts |
Posted - 05 janv. 2007 : 22:53:18
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Originally posted by Marvin Hlavac
Yeah, TomTom announced it on my birthday :-)
http://www.tomtom.com/news/category.php?ID=4&NID=324&Language=1
TomTom maps being ungraded for North America sounds like a great B-Day gift...hahaha! What TomTom do you have? One, 910, 510, or do have an old school unit? |
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Marvin Hlavac
Canada
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Posted - 05 janv. 2007 : 23:35:53
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| A few years back I bought my wife TomTom Go, but she no longer uses it. It's still at home somewhere, though. |
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generalpatsajak
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Posted - 05 janv. 2007 : 23:56:56
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Originally posted by Marvin Hlavac
A few years back I bought my wife TomTom Go, but she no longer uses it. It's still at home somewhere, though.
Oh so no GPS unit? If you have a laptop you can buy tomtom maps and load them onto your computer. A buddy of mine did that. He was too lazy to buy an actual unit so he bought the GPS software loaded it on his laptop. Then he built a mount for it out of wood and fastened it with bungee cords. It was a pretty funny contraption....but it worked well |
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Marvin Hlavac
Canada
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Posted - 06 janv. 2007 : 16:13:29
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| No, we have no other TeleAtlas based product in our household :-) Everything we have is based on NavTeq data. However, this may change as the new TeleAtlas map data really proves to be of higher quality than it used to be in the past (for our geographical area). |
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generalpatsajak
USA
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Posted - 09 janv. 2007 : 16:52:58
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Originally posted by Marvin Hlavac
No, we have no other TeleAtlas based product in our household :-) Everything we have is based on NavTeq data. However, this may change as the new TeleAtlas map data really proves to be of higher quality than it used to be in the past (for our geographical area).
Embrace change Marvin Hlavac..lol
Im pretty excited because I'm a big tomtom fan and I particualarily like the TT One. Anyways having TeleAtlas update their maps in North America strengthens tomtom gps units in general. |
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Alexo
Canada
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Posted - 07 janv. 2008 : 07:33:20
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Originally posted by Marvin Hlavac
No, we have no other TeleAtlas based product in our household :-) Everything we have is based on NavTeq data. However, this may change as the new TeleAtlas map data really proves to be of higher quality than it used to be in the past (for our geographical area).
Do you feel that Teleatlas has better coverage in Canada than Navteq?
It was not the case a year or so ago.
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Marvin Hlavac
Canada
6902 Posts |
Posted - 07 janv. 2008 : 12:37:39
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| I'm just in the process of looking at MapFactor PC Navigator, a Laptop PC navigation software which comes with Teleatlas map data. A few months ago I had a brief look at Novogo 700BT, a PND using Teleatlas maps. In my very limited ability to judge this (my driving is limited to mostly in and around the Toronto area), I've noticed some similarities in routing between these two Teleatlas based products. They both have a slightly higher tendency not to keep me on main roads, and routing me through smaller local roads. This doesn't happen too often, and perhaps there may be some logic to it on occasion, but I haven't experienced this yet with a Navteq based product. So I still tend to favour Navteq, but credit has to be given to Teleatlas for a substantial improvement of its data over the past few years. |
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Alexo
Canada
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Posted - 09 janv. 2008 : 20:59:51
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Interesting article from about a year ago:
http://www.gpsreview.net/navteq-vs-tele-atlas/
Unfortunately, http://uwmike.com/maps/source/ does not seem to work anymore. Only TeleAtlas data is displayed.
However, comparing it to other sites shows more details in Google and Live (both say map data (c) Navteq).
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generalpatsajak
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egadgetguy
USA
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Posted - 17 janv. 2008 : 17:42:52
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I just looked at the TeleAtlas site. Their maps are still not showing some of the roads I noticed are missing on my MIO. Most of these are 7 years old or more. Also, NAVTEQ shows many of them right. So for me at least, NAVTEQ is better. Now I just need to find a device that uses navteq maps, and has what I need.
Two that I've tried are the garmin nuvi200 and the NAVIGON 2100.
the nuvi won't show my speed on the map page while on a route and the navigon has a routing problem... |
GPS history: Garmin eMap + eMap [both broke] >> Magellan MAP410 > Garmin GPS'V' +
JensenNVX200 > Garmin Nuvi200 > Navigon 2100 > MIO C230 > Navigon7100!
Current GPSs: Garmin GPS'V' and Navigon7100!
Jensen & Mio use TA maps which suck in AL. Navigon is only good AIO with NavTeq |
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MacFlash
USA
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Posted - 30 janv. 2008 : 14:58:43
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| My development is 10 years old, here in Mass. Just checked the teleatlas site and the street I am on is shown as a loop and the adjoining street is totally missing. I think this was the builders original plans. I put in a correction. It will be interesting to see how long it actually takes teleatlas to correct it. |
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