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NAVTEQ Now Covers 1.28m Kms in India & 6.25m POIs, Up 80% in 6 Months

05/08/2012
Last week NAVTEQ announced significant developments in its map coverage of India that now has 1.28 million kilometers of road network and 6.25 million Points of Interest. NAVTEQ increased its India map by over 80% to 4,200+ cities in two quarters. The digital map provider also offers some of its...

ALK’s CoPilot Includes 1 Year Free Live Traffic with Navigation App (UPDATED)

04/25/2012
Mobile navigation provider ALK technologies today announced that its navigation app for iOS and Android, CoPilot Live Premium, will now include 12 months free access to real-time traffic. Previously a €9.99 additional annual subscription, the traffic service supplied by Nokia Location &...

TomTom Debuts Web-based Batch Geocoder for 52 Countries

04/24/2012
Unveiled today at the Geospatial World Forum in Amsterdam, the TomTom Global Geocoder is a web service that offers batch geocoding in 52 countries. In the past TomTom was already offering a batch geocoder to its customers, but this was only software, not providing a fully hosted, on-demand...

Bings Maps Update: 924 Indoor Venue Maps

04/17/2012
In a blog post today Microsoft Bing Maps announced the release of several updates including interiors maps of malls, airports, casinos and shopping districts. There are 790 of these in the United States, 53 in France, 20 in Germany, and 61 in the United Kingdom. NAVTEQ is the likely provider of...

NNG License NAVTEQ Natural Guidance for Russian Market

04/04/2012
Navigation software provider NNG has announced to have licensed NAVTEQ Natural Guidance database to offer “more intuitive navigation to manufacturers and users of PND and aftermarket devices in Russia.“NAVTEQ Natural Guidance is generating directions the way a friend does instead of through linear...

Nokia Drive Gets Traffic Updates in Delhi, Mumbai

04/01/2012
Nokia has announced an interesting add-on to its mobile navigation software Drive in India with the introduction of real-time traffic for its smartphone users in Delhi and Mumbai. The service will be available on select Nokia smartphones like Nokia N8, Nokia 700, Nokia 701, Nokia E6, Nokia Lumia...

TomTom Claims HD Traffic Outperfoms Competitors: Study Methodology Under Question

03/27/2012
TomTom today at the Intertraffic exhibition in Amsterdam published the result of a study from the German Aerospace Center that, according to the GPS maker, demonstrates TomTom’s HD traffic superiority against the competition. The methodology used is however mixing results from traffic feed and...

Peugeot & NAVTEQ Intro in-Dash Nav in Morocco (UPDATED)

03/08/2012
Digital map maker NAVTEQ and French car maker Peugeot have teamed up to offer “the first ever factory fitted navigation system in Morocco.“ The Peugeot WIP NAV system with the NAVTEQ Map will be offered as an option on the Peugeot 207, 308, 3008 and 5008 models.NAVTEQ map of Morocco features 75,000...

The New Face of Nokia Location & Commerce - Q&A with Michael Halbherr

03/08/2012
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week, GPS Business News interviewed with Michael Halbherr, who heads the newly formed Nokia Location & Commerce division based on the merger of the Nokia Maps division with NAVTEQ.

In this exclusive interview Michael Halbherr highlights several interesting new focus of his organization, including the local commerce aspect and the willingness to bundle its platform with its content when selling to third parties.

Geneva: New Dacia Lodgy Gets Low Cost Nav

03/06/2012
Unveiled today ath the Geneva Motor Show, the Dacia Lodgy is a MPV Car with a low cost price tag starting at €9,900 that adds up to the range developed over the years by the brand part of the Renault group. Among the optional features is MEDIA NAV, a multimedia and GPS navigation infotainment...

Location-Based Ad Campaigns Flourishing in South Africa

02/08/2012
When it comes to location-based mobile advertising South Africa is not much talked about. However there are several recent campaigns that worth global recognition. Business Positioning Systems, a Johannesburg-based marketing consultancy has recently helped leading local fast food restaurant...

Yandex Selects NAVTEQ Data for Mapping Portal Outside Russia

01/30/2012
Yandex, the leading Russian internet portal and search engine, has selected NAVTEQ map data to power Yandex.Maps outside of Russia. "Our association with NAVTEQ, the leading map content provider, will help us take Yandex.Maps to the level of a comprehensive, all-purpose mapping service that...

Australia & NZ: Garmin Switches from Sensis to NAVTEQ

01/26/2012
Garmin has today announced that it will transition its map provider for the majority of its Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs) in Australia and New Zealand to NAVTEQ from February 2012. Sensis was the previous map data provider. "Garmin is known for providing the best navigation experience...

Nokia Pulls the Plug on NAVTEQ NN4D

01/26/2012
As part of the alignment of digital map maker NAVTEQ within the Nokia Location & Commerce Group, the Finnish phone manufacturer decided to close down NAVTEQ Network for Developers (NN4D), its outreach to location-based services developers. The whole team was made redundant at the end of last...

TomTom Recruits Former NAVTEQ Traffic Director for Europe

01/18/2012
Andreas Erwig has joined TomTom early January as the head of product management for TomTom HD Traffic. Erwig was previously Traffic director for Europe at NAVTEQ until Nokia decided to close the NAVTEQ Traffic office in Bonn, Germany in May 2011. Unlike in the United States, where Nokia sold...

NAVTEQ Traffic Goes to India

01/09/2012
Digital map maker NAVTEQ today announced the launch of its real-time traffic service NAVTEQ Traffic Pro in India serving Delhi and Mumbai, the most populated Indian cities with 26 million inhabitants combined. No customer has been announced for the service at this stage.

Garmin now Using NAVTEQ Traffic over HD Radio in the U.S.

01/02/2012
Just before Christmas NAVTEQ announced that it is now powering a personal navigation device (PND) from Garmin the nuvi 3490LMT with its real-time traffic system delivered over the HD Radio network in the United States. NAVTEQ said it can now “deliver traffic updates approximately every 30...

NAVTEQ to Offer Unpaved Road Data for Saudi Arabia

12/15/2011
Digital map provider NAVTEQ Introduced its first off-road map of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. NAVTEQ Off-Road supports route guidance for 4WD vehicles and motorcycles on over 13,000 kilometres of the country’s unpaved tracks. The new map includes popular, well used, off-road routes in and...

NAVTEQ Inks Deal with AvMap

12/05/2011
NAVTEQ today announced to have been selected as digital map provider by AvMap, an italian provider of high end PNDs and semi integrated automotive-grade navigation systems. “Because of its historical presence in the automotive industry, NAVTEQ has developed digital maps and a content...

NAVTEQ Enhances Map Coverage in Argentina

12/02/2011
NAVTEQ this week announced that its map coverage has reached over 90 percent of Argentina population. It provides navigable map data of all Argentinean cities with a population greater than 5,000. NAVTEQ’s visual content portfolio for Argentina includes 3D Landmarks and Enhanced 3D City...

Nokia Intros Public Transport App for 430 Cities Worldwide

10/27/2011
Among this week announcements at Nokia World, the Finnish handset maker released the Nokia Public Transport application which, as the name implies, is designed to help you navigate cities by public transportation. It works in more than 430 cities worldwide, and includes up-to-the-minute updates on...

NAVTEQ US Broadcast Media Assets Acquired by Matchbin

10/17/2011
Matchbin, a provider of content management, advertising and local marketplace solutions for media companies, has acquired NAVTEQ’s Radio and Television Advertising Group (located in Malvern, PA), which as part of NAVTEQ Media Solutions provides content and advertising solutions for broadcast radio...

Alpine Selects NAVTEQ Traffic in Russia

10/13/2011
NAVTEQ today announced to have signed up Alpine for its real-time traffic service in Russia. The in-dash aftermarket Alpine INA-W910R will be the first device to have embedded NAVTEQ’s traffic service in a car in the country. In Russia NAVTEQ Traffic covers around 18,500 kilometres of road...

Garmin Debuts Nüvi PNDs in Mexico

10/13/2011
Garmin has started to offer its personal navigation devices to Mexican consumers. SIGSA, Sistemas de Información Geográfica S.A. de C.V is the official distributor of the following Garmin PNDs available in Mexico today: Nüvi 2250, 2350, 2360LT, 2360LMT, 2460LT, 3790LT and 3790LMT. ...

NAVTEQ Traffic Hurt by Nokia’s Downsizing

10/05/2011
As part of the Nokia announcement to downsize its personnel last week (read here) it appears that two of the offices to be closed are Bonn, Germany and Malvern, PA, in the suburb of Philadelphia. A sizeable part of NAVTEQ Traffic North America was based in Malvern (the original Traffic.com - bought...

NAVTEQ: Ad-model Is Future for Traffic Services

10/04/2011
INTERVIEW: Howard Hayes, senior vice-president of NAVTEQ Traffic, spoke to GPS Business News about pricing, the shift from fixed to floating traffic data input sensors, data privacy, solving the problems facing community-sourced incident data and why he believes ad-supported model is the future....

Nokia Slashes 1,300 Jobs in Location & Commerce Division

09/29/2011
Nokia today announced a new plan to “align its workforce and operations“, said the company in its politically correct “Newspeak“. This plan will impact 3,500 employees, including 1,300 staff in the newly created Location & Commerce business unit that includes the former Nokia’s “social location...

NAVTEQ Maps Powering all Mercedes Nav in Europe

09/26/2011
Digital map provider NAVTEQ has announced that nearly all Daimler passenger vehicle navigation platforms in Europe will be powered by NAVTEQ maps, following the selection of their data by Daimler AG for the Mercedes E Class range and the CLS-Class model. Daimler is using NAVTEQ’s...

NAVTEQ Natural Guidance: 120 EU Cities & 4 Russian

09/22/2011
Last week digital map provider NAVTEQ announced that its Natural Guidance product is now available to over 120 cities across Europe (Benelux, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) and covering four cities in Russia (Moscow, St Petersburg, Ekaterinburg and Rostov-na-Donu). ...

NAVTEQ Indoor Maps: Adding 48 Malls in Singapore

09/21/2011
Digital map provider NAVTEQ today announced the addition of 48 major shopping malls throughout Singapore to its indoor, “Destination Maps“ offering. The coverage includes malls along Singapore’s iconic shopping belts from Marina Bay, Bugis Street, Chinatown, North Bridge Road, Orchard Road,...

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