Technology Overview

Technology that unleashes the most powerful next-generation location-based solutions

With Tele Atlas, you are well positioned to take advantage of the growing demand for navigation solutions across the globe. Leaders in portable navigation, Internet, wireless and automotive markets, as well as enterprises and public-sector agencies, choose Tele Atlas to deliver digital maps and dynamic content that power the world’s most viable – and reliable – navigation and location-based applications.

Learn how we're using community feedback to create the freshest and most accurate maps. 

Freshness
Our map update and enhancement process is designed to rapidly validate and incorporate user-generated content.  It ensures that our maps set the standard for freshness, richness and accuracy, and best meet increasing end user demands for real-time data that reflect current conditions. End user feedback, along with our exclusive Mobile Mapping technology and information we garner from more than thousands of authoritative, global sources, enables us to deliver the map foundation on which our customers create innovative, useful solutions for millions of people around the world every day.

Accuracy
We provide superior positional accuracy to ensure that the real world is properly represented, investing significantly in compiling GIS datasets and field-based efforts, enhancing both the geo-spatial positioning of our maps and their value.

Richness
We extend the richness of our data through innovative dynamic content – including real-time and historical traffic information – that enable you to differentiate your products through enhancements such as 3D City Maps, 3D Landmarks, 26 million POIs, and millions of verified Address Points in Europe, North America and around the world.

Coverage
Tele Atlas provides comprehensive maps that include detailed street-level and interconnecting road networks for 94 countries around the world, covering over 31 million kilometers of roads. In addition, Tele Atlas Connect™ provides basic mapping and routing functionalities for digital map coverage of more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. Click here to see our coverage map.