Thursday, October 1. 2009

$10 Million NGA Contract for NAVTEQ

NAVTEQ Corp., Chicago, won a $10,893,729 federal contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's St. Louis Contracting Center, Arnold, Mo., for Global Transportation, Public Venues and Miscellaneous Points of Interest Geospatial Data Layers Dataset (geospatial vector data layers).

Tuesday, September 29. 2009

ESRI/NAVTEQ Make Commitment as part of 2009 Clinton Global Initiative

Among the 2009 Clinton Global Initiative environmental commitments (press release) is this one using geospatial technology:

ESRI and NAVTEQ, in partnership with the City of San Francisco, commit to implement a pilot program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from specific municipal vehicle fleets, and mobile work force vehicles in the city and county of San Francisco. By using fleet route optimization software, city workers will locate routes that minimize fuel consumption.

Tuesday, September 22. 2009

Podcast: deCarta Supports OpenStreetMap

This past week's big news was deCarta's announcement of support for the crowdsourced OpenStreetMaps geographic data across its product line. What does that mean for other companies in the mapping tools space, the data space and for end users of these products?

Monday, September 14. 2009

NAVTEQ Upping Indian Staff 50%

Yahoo News India states the company's production centre in India (Mumbai) plans to add 200 employees in the next three to four months. The information is sourced to PTI.

Wednesday, September 2. 2009

Commercial GPS Data Typically Two Years Old: A Reason to Use Crowdsourced Data?

ZDnet interviewed Google Ed Parsons who offered the "two years old" comment. The article highlights Google's Mapmaker (but not OpenStreetMap). Geraldine Kor, director of customer marketing, Asia-Pacific, at NAVTEQ explains that when users report errors to NAVTEQ often the update has already been made, but is not in the user's dataset yet.

Recently NAVTEQ stated in a press release release that yearly updates are about right. "Typically GPS system maps need updating about once a year. "

Monday, August 31. 2009

MapSherpa; Maps (not GIS) for Outdoor People

Back in 2005 DM Solutions' name was on many lips as one of the most prominent developers and implementors of open source GIS. The Ottawa-based firm was tied in to the early efforts to create what is now the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, OSGEO. More recently DM Solutions has been quiet. It was time for a rethink of the business and the way ahead. And, that brings us to MapSherpa.com, the company's new consumer focused site. (press release) That's right - the one time B2B provider is now in the B2C space. The backend is still the open source code for which the company is known.