TeleAtlas Finishes Mapping All Western Europe

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The road less traveled seems to be harder and harder to find. TeleAtlas has announced that they have mapped all of Western Europe. That’s all well and good, but I thought that the numbers were pretty interesting. Tele Atlas European maps now cover more than 7.8 million total kilometers, the equivalent of traveling around the Equator 195 times or a return trip to the moon 10 times. What was the fuel bill for all that mapping?

Within Western Europe, the database now reaches more than 386 million inhabitants, includes 1.7 million ‘standard’ points-of-interest (POIs) and nearly 90 percent of all house numbers across the region. That’s a lot of data. My hunch is that it won’t be fitting on just any old GPS system. You’ll need hard drive space for this much information, and probably a big wallet, as these maps on a GPS system will cost a bit more than your single country GPS system.

“With the completion of Western Europe and our rapid expansion in Eastern Europe, 43 countries are now fully represented in our extensive European digital map database,” said Jack Reinelt, Managing Director and COO of Tele Atlas Europe, Middle East and Africa. “This milestone is just one example of our continued commitment to provide detailed and accurate geographic content to our partners and customers building high end local search and navigation solutions.”