One satnav mapping technique

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Wed 6 Jun 2007 15:32
One satnav mapping technique - SjB {P}
Ever wondered how your satnav mapping was undertaken in the first place? Even if not, this is quite an interesting video to watch and shows one of the techniques employed by TeleAtlas, mapping providors to TomTom, Navman, and others.

tinyurl.com/2p6tg4


It concludes with an insight in to something I wondered about as soon as I used the "driving down the street" presentation mode of my TomTom application for the first time several years ago; how long before the maps show what you actually see, 3-D buildings and all? I'm not sure this is strictly necessary, especially as uncluttered presentation is desirable and in my case at least I can usually rely on spoken instruction alone, but with the ever increasing processing abilities of handheld and dedicated satnav devices, not that long we're had to believe.

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Wed 6 Jun 2007 15:34
One satnav mapping technique - SjB {P}
Mods - It wasn't present in my cut and paste, so please remove the line wrap that pasting or saving my post has added to the URL. Ta. Link non clickable as it's a video link, so that bit is intentional.

{Done. No need for vid clips to be non clickable now - (apart from a few exceptions outlined here) -
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=46222 - DD}


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Wed 6 Jun 2007 15:40
One satnav mapping technique - Aprilia
I have used Satnav in Tokyo and you see representations of the buildings in front of you actually on the screen. Very impressive.
The snag in Japan is that they don't have addresses in the conventional sense (buildings and streets are numbered at 'random') and so you enter the telephone number of your destination. Also the interface is in Japanese, which I can neither read nor speak, so all in all not much use to a foreigner.
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Wed 6 Jun 2007 15:51
One satnav mapping technique - rtj70
Pocketgpsworld did an article on this recently too. Probably got invited to the same event as PCPro.

www.pocketgpsworld.com/teleatlas-mapping-van-a1000...p

The people in the mapping van mentioned on PocketGPSWorld also live in it!
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Wed 6 Jun 2007 15:58
One satnav mapping technique - local yokel
Here's the same story on the BBC - inc video:

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6684381.stm
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