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Nokia Keeps Quietly Mapping The World

Posted by timothy on from the under-the-lidar dept.

LucidBeast writes "Mapping the world isn't easy as our friends in Cupertino have found out. Google's maps seem ubiquitous, but there is a less known real heavyweight still mapping the world. Nokia acquired Navteq in 2007, and five years later they are still reading fleet data and scanning cities with LIDAR and 360 degree cameras."

3 of 197 comments (clear)

  1. Re:AAPL could buy NOK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Offline maps with directions and turn by turn navigation are now days free with Nokias. I use Nokia 701 for navigation when biking. Maps are amazingly accurate.

  2. Re:What about websites? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    www.mapquest.com

  3. Re:AAPL could buy NOK by Kenja · · Score: 5, Informative

    Your reports are flawed, Google wanted to brand the map app if it was going to include all the Google map features. Apple refused to let a Google logo tarnish the iPhone.

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