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. ”
by Adena Schutzberg on 09/02 at 06:26 AM |
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