NAVTEQ VP: “Indian Map data quality is not up to the mark”

Silicon India‘s headline included the term “sucks” but Vice President, Partner and Developer Program Marc Naddel, who gave the keynote, didn’t apparently say that. The statement above was made at during a panel discussions on LBS at COMSNETS-09, an international conference on communication systems and networks, being held in Bangalore.

Microsoft chose NAVTEQ for its Live Search, just last month. So, I guess Microsoft finds NAVTEQ’s data works for that company. NAVTEQ owner Nokia got into a PR “situation” last month when outdated maps caused protests because of mobile map’s depictions of Kashmir.

Naddel went on to say that there is great opportunity, but if he did talk about how NAVTEQ/Nokia will be capturing better data, Silicon India didn’t report it.