LAS VEGAS --(Business Wire)-- Tele Atlas, the world leader in
high quality digital maps and dynamic content, today unveiled the latest version
of its database, MultiNet® 2010.03. With more than 32 million kilometers (20
million miles), Tele Atlas maps cover more roads, more countries and more people
than any other available map, with comprehensive location and navigation content
of 95 countries and territories in Europe, North and South America, Africa, the
Middle East and Asia.
“Our strategy is to deliver the highest quality and most up-to-date location
and navigation content available. We continue to invest in critical geographies,
as well as build out more advanced features in developing markets,” said Peter
Davie, director of product management, Tele Atlas. “By delivering new products
and offerings, including innovations based on community input, we are able to
meet our global customer needs and deliver the content that will differentiate
their offerings.”
With the latest release of MultiNet, Tele Atlas has also further enhanced the
content for its Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) compliant products.
Tele Atlas ADAS is designed to bring a new level of quality to eco-routing and
vehicle safety applications, helping drivers save money and better protect
themselves and their families. Tele Atlas ADAS is the first gradient and
curvature enhancement data product to use community input and other
authoritative sources as the basis for ADAS solutions that help drivers navigate
more safely, efficiently and with greater accuracy than ever before. The latest
maps feature the addition of gradient data based on anonymous GPS measurements
on approximately 95,000 kilometers (59,000 miles) of roads in North America and
225,000 kilometers (140,000 miles) of major roads across Europe, a 400 percent
increase in Europe in ADAS compliant coverage from the product’s initial release
in January 2010.
Tele Atlas continues to demonstrate advancements in leveraging anonymous GPS
measurements in combination with other sources and processes to validate and
realign or extend the world’s road network. The newest maps now contain input
from drivers in 35 countries across 18 features that changed crossings into
roundabouts, added or adjusted street names, adjusted traffic flow and added
streets. Changes include new road geometry across Europe in countries such as
Croatia, Poland and Turkey, to expand the global road network.
The latest release also features notable updates around the world, including:
- Content to enable key functionality such as
address locating with house number expansion in the Czech Republic, Finland,
France, Greece, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Turkey;
- Expanded coverage, including the recently
announced navigable maps of Ukraine which cover the country’s complete major and
interconnecting road networks, the creation and expansion of street network and
fully-attributable coverage in Russia;
- New availability of map coverage for Uruguay
and for Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Mali and
Mauritania in Africa;
- Augmented attribution for approximately 52,000
kilometers (32,000 miles) in Germany and 30,000 kilometers (18,600 miles) in
Spain to enable appropriate routing that helps keep drivers off undesirable
roads, such as logging roads;
- Delivery of the first Address Point product in
Russia to identify the precise location of destinations for spatial analysis and
application display;
- Rich content to enhance Tele Atlas Urban Maps,
including additional metro station points of interest (POIs) and pedestrian
walkways in Greece, Italy and Germany, and;
- More advanced database features such as
signposts and speeds in South Africa and the Middle East, including United Arab
Emirates and Qatar.
How Tele Atlas Maps are Made
Tele Atlas has the only digital map
database in the world that is updated daily with the insight of a community of
millions of GPS system users worldwide, who along with the company’s unmatched
network of sources help to track and validate changes. To date, Tele Atlas has
validated and processed more than more than 1.5 million edits sourced from this
group of users, the largest GPS data collection community in the world.
To update its maps, Tele Atlas captures and verifies changes from a
comprehensive network of global sources, ranging from government documents and
public safety officials to construction companies, professional truck drivers,
its own drivers, proprietary mobile mapping van technology, as well as satellite
and aerial imagery. By validating and adding contributions from individual
drivers as an additional source, Tele Atlas is able to increase the total number
of changes identified by its network, particularly in geographically dispersed
and rural areas covered less frequently by other data sources. This community
input is backed by stringent review and validation processes and further enables
Tele Atlas to create fresher, higher quality maps and deliver a better
experience for end users of its maps.
For more information, visit www.teleatlas.com.
