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Press Kit
Recent News
Please visit our Press Release Page for an overview of recent Tele Atlas news.
Overview
For more than 25 years, Tele Atlas, the world’s most trusted source of digital maps, has helped its partners successfully develop world class mapping solutions. Today, we’re revolutionizing the ways that digital maps are updated and enhanced - to incorporate real world, real time feedback from the world’s largest connected navigation community to deliver the best, freshest maps and dynamic content possible. Click here to learn how Tele Atlas is using community input to create the freshest and most accurate maps.
We work with partners across a wide range of markets and industries, including enterprises who trust our digital map data to deliver critical applications for emergency, business, fleet and infrastructure services. Our map database spans more than 200 countries and territories worldwide, including more than 32 million kilometers of roads, more than 3.3 billion inhabitants, and more than 26 million Points-of-Interest (POIs) worldwide. Click here to see our coverage map (jpg).
Tele Atlas White Papers and Info Sheets
Community Input White Paper: The Power of Community: Smarter Maps, Today
ADAS White Paper: Next Generation of Driver Safety
Tele Atlas ADAS Info Sheet
Tele Atlas Advanced City Models Info Sheet
Tele Atlas HD Traffic Info Sheet
Tele Atlas Speed Profiles Info Sheet
Tele Atlas Urban Maps Info Sheet
Tele Atlas Logos
Tele Atlas Success Stories are also available online; click here to learn more about our work with ESRI, RIM and others.
Innovative Product News, Maps, Visuals and More
NEW! Speed Profiles Reveals True Picture of Traffic in U.S. National Parks
The latest TomTom study revealed average speeds of vehicles travelling through National Parks, based on anonymous user-shared data from park visitors using TomTom navigation devices. The findings indicate that the National Parks are not as congested as they are often depicted. Of the nearly 8,200 total miles of navigable roads within the National Parks, only about 0.1% of all roadways experienced any regularly occurring traffic within the park.
Speed Profiles road speed information and mileage for the top 10 most visited parks and lists of which parks have the highest and lowest average speeds are outlined here. (pdf)
World Cup Soccer
With World Cup Soccer on the horizon, digital maps and dynamic content leader Tele Atlas released a World Cup Soccer-ready digital map of South Africa. This includes the latest road networks in South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland, as well as detail for all nine host cities. It’s the map fans need to find everything they want, from restaurants, hotels and bars to the fastest routes around regulated traffic zones.
More that 50 Tele Atlas 3D Landmarks are also available for South Africa for developers to include to create applications that match what users actually see in their surroundings, helping them more easily find locations and services, including: Loftus Versfeld Stadium, Voortrekkersmonument
Speed Profiles Reveals the Most Polluted Roads in the United States
TomTom’s Latest Traffic Study leverages data from GPS users to reveal a detailed view of the environmental and economic impact of carbon emissions from traffic jams on nation’s primary and secondary roads. The top 20 most polluted roads, the associated costs of that pollution in terms of tons of carbon emission produced and additional fuel wasted are outlined here:
Speed Profiles Top 20 Most Polluted Roads (pdf)
Speed Profiles Reveals U.S. Drivers Aren’t Speed Demons
Data from millions of GPS users show drivers stay within speed limit range on most major U.S. highways. The fastest highway, “America’s Autobahn,” is on I-15 in Utah and Nevada, while the slowest road is in Washington D.C. See the results:
Speed Profiles Reveals the Real Traffic Hotspots
Millions of TomTom users show clearest picture yet of worst roads in U.S. See the results:
Tele Atlas’ Nhai Cao discusses Traffic Hotspots. Click here to listen to the podcast.
Tele Atlas Advanced City Models
The four levels of detail included in Advanced City Models, plus a demo for Rostock (Germany)
A brief demo showing the highest Level of Detail (LOD4 or photorealistic level) for the center of Ghent (Belgium)
Images of Advanced City Models in: Geneva, Ghent, Groningen, Helsinki, Luxembourg, Rotterdam, Rostock and Salzburg
Tele Atlas Community Input News
In December, Tele Atlas launched the latest version of MultiNet. Thanks to community input, Tele Atlas leveraged anonymous GPS measurements from portable navigation devices users in combination with other sources and processes to produce significant realignment of road network geometry. In this example of Germany’s major freeway network, the green lines indicate realignments in the road geometry in a recent Tele Atlas database release; most of the realignments involved shifts of a few feet. In this photo of a roadway segment in Germany, the blue lines represent the geometry in Tele Atlas’ previous database; the orange lines represent the realigned geometry in the Tele Atlas database, based on the GPS measurements shared by portable navigation device users.
Notably, Tele Atlas has also used community input to help generate new road geometry. A previous version of Tele Atlas' database included 12,000 kilometers or roads in Romania. Thanks to community input, the database now contains more than 18,000 additional kilometers of roads, helping to very quickly make the map of the country more complete.
Tele Atlas Videos
Tele Atlas Vice President Rik Temmink discusses the true value of community input and how it helps not only create fresher maps, but develop innovative new solutions. Click here to watch the video.
Tele Atlas Vice President Rik Temmink discusses new traffic solutions and why they are more comprehensive, and useful, than ever before. Click here to watch the video.
The Tele Atlas Podcast Series is now available!
Download podcasts from the Series to hear from company executives and industry partners and learn more about Tele Atlas, company news, industry trends.
Tele Atlas Podcast Series
New! Episode 18, 21 Apr 2010: Learn more about Tele Atlas Speed Profiles and the latest TomTom traffic study which reveals the most polluting roads in the United States from Senior Product Manager Nhai Cao. Click here to listen.
Episode 17, 7 Jan 2010: Tele Atlas Vice President of Automotive, Transportation and Telematics Jon Husby discusses trends in automotive navigation including enhanced content and connectivity. Click here to listen.
Episode 16, 6 Jan 2010: Tele Atlas Vice President of Automotive, Transportation and Telematics Jon Husby discusses the launch of Tele Atlas ADAS to enable solutions that route and navigate drivers with safe and efficient guidance. Click here to listen.
Episode 15, 2 Dec 2009: Tele Atlas Senior Product Manager Nhai Cao discusses Traffic Hotspots. Click here to listen.
Episode 14, 3 Nov 2009: Tele Atlas’ Nhai Cao discusses the launch of Speed Profiles in Taiwan, which marks the first use of community input in Asia to help drivers find the fastest routes. Click here to listen.
Episode 13, 28 Sep 2009: Tele Atlas’ Pete Davie explains how the company uses community input to update its maps, and what’s in the latest version of its map database for navigation devices and local search applications. Click here to listen.
Episode 12, 13 July 2009: Tele Atlas' John Cassidy talks about using GIS technology in tough economic times. Click here to listen.
Episode 11, 22 June 2009: Tele Atlas' Rik Temmink provides an overview the company's newly released HD Traffic solutions and what makes the company's offerings so powerful. Click here to listen.
Episode 10, 22 June 2009: Tele Atlas' Peter Davie discusses the impact of community input on the latest release of Tele Atlas' database. Click here to listen.
Episode 9, 1 June 2009: Tele Atlas' Jonathon Husby and TomTom's Jocelyn Vigreux offer insights on the Telematics industry and what future innovations lie ahead. Click here to listen.
Episode 8, 23 April 2009: Learn more about Tele Atlas' expansion in Latin America and regional plans from Director of Latin America Data Sourcing Jim O'Gorman. Click here to listen.
Episode 7, 16 February 2009: Tele Atlas' Simon Glassman and Daren Koenig provide perspectives on wireless navigation trends and what the future of LBS may hold. Click here to listen.
Episode 6, 16 February 2009: Tele Atlas' Simon Glassman and Daren Koenig discuss the Tele Atlas LBS Innovators Series and offer insight on "What Today's Developers Should Know." Click here to listen.
Episode 5, 11 February 2009: Tele Atlas' Rob Van Essen describes how Tele Atlas is revolutionizing map making with community input to ensure a more complete view of road network worldwide and a faster path to fresher maps, and how it will impact digital map in the future. Click here to listen.
Episode 4, 8 January 2009: ABI Research's Dominique Bonte offers "An Expert's Perspective on Digital Mapping Trends", featuring discussion on current digital mapping trends and an outlook for 2009. Click here to listen.
Episode 3, 19 November 2008: Tele Atlas' Rik Temmink describes how Tele Atlas Speed Profiles will transform the navigation users’ experience with unprecedented detail and accuracy for optimal routing. Click here to listen.
Episode 2, 27 October 2008: Hosted by Tele Atlas' Rik Temmink, learn what community means to Tele Atlas and how community input will help Tele Atlas revolutionize the industry. Click here to listen.
Episode 1, 27 October 2008: CEO Bill Henry introduces the Tele Atlas Digital Mapping Podcast and announces an industry first! Click here to listen.
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