On any given day in the United States, a few thousand vehicles are systematically collecting geographic data — including street centerlines, number of lanes, turn restrictions, speed limits, traffic speed, locations of television and radio broadcast antennas, and street-level images of streets, building, and signage. The two leading worldwide collectors and providers of digital map data are Tele Atlas and NAVTEQ. In this post, Matteo Luccio discusses the types and amounts of geographic data those companies collect.
Archive for October, 2008
How Mapping Companies Collect Street-level Data
Posted in Cool stuff, General, tagged GPS, NAVTEQ, street-level mapping, Tele Atlas on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Blurring the Lines between Consumer and Professional GIS
Posted in Cool stuff, General, tagged ArcMap, GeoPDF, Geospatial, GIS, PNDs on October 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The market and technical distinctions between consumer and professional GIS products and services are rapidly disappearing. Consider this:
