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Tele Atlas Introduces Online Map Feedback Tool

posted by Satri on Monday August 28, @10:33AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the externalize-the-costs dept.
Maps Data Sharing
Tele Atlas introduces an online map feedback tool. From the press release: "[...] Map Insight, an online tool that allows users of Internet, personal navigation and wireless devices and applications powered by Tele Atlas data to quickly report changes to the company. [...] Changes to roads and points of interest occur every day, and the ability to quickly analyze and incorporate multiple sources of input is vital to generating maps that are fresh and highly accurate. [...] Map Insight adds an interactive, community-based perspective that Tele Atlas President and COO George Fink says is vital to the future of map development."

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