PROGOROD, a newly formed company supplying navigation services in Russia, has chosen to licence ITIS’ Trafficscience Technology to provide traffic information to Russian drivers. The Trafficscience system will use PROGOROD’s own GPS data which will be fused with other sources to provide high quality flow data initially...

Portuguese mobile navigation supplier NDrive released today NDrive London in the iPhone app store, a new navigation application that includes oblique aerial imagery for the British capital city center and is available for £5.99. NDrive offers three navigation modes: auto (fastest and shortest), pedestrian, and...

Satellite imagery provider DigitalGlobe announced last week an agreement with Microsoft to distribute high-resolution, 30-cm aerial imagery of contiguous landscapes, initially in the U.S. and Western Europe. These orthophoto mosaics will be available through Bing Maps and through DigitalGlobe channels. This initiative...

Digital map maker Tele Atlas has announced the availability of its speed profile database for Taiwan, the first historic speed product in Asia. Speed Profiles aggregates and enhances real speed data from GPS-enabled devices, using consumer driving patterns to provide true average speeds on individual road segments. This new...

Earlier this month the European Commission announced the official start of operations for EGNOS, the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service, a satellite-based augmentation system that improves the accuracy of satellite navigation signals over Europe. The primary service is now available to all users equipped...

Australian map data provider Whereis, a subsidiary of Sensis, has launched Real View, a photo realistic advanced lane guidance database that is first available on selected Garmin GPS models. Adrian Tout, spokesperson for Whereis®, explained: “The technology—an Australian first— provides drivers with a photo realistic...

Yesterday at the WiMAX Forum's Broadband Taiwan 2009 event in Taipei, MiTAC demonstrated a Mio branded Mobile Internet Navigation Device (MIND). The device - called MiBuddy - is both a Personal navigation Device and a Mobile Internet tablet based on the Android operating system and boasting a 4.3-inch screen and a keyboard....

According to a NAVTEQ research, based on nearly 395,000 unique route tests in 18 U.S. and Canadian cities, it appears that historical traffic data ( NAVTEQ Traffic Patterns) can save drivers up to 22 hours a year for an average, daily, roundtrip commute of 40 miles. In this NAVTEQ research a cross section of...

Traffic information provider INRIX took the opportunity of the launch of its free traffic information Application for Android phones to announce it has reached 1.3 million GPS probes in the United States. INRIX already had over a million probes, mainly from commercial fleets, but the recent success of its iPhone...

Australian mapping company Whereis has launched 3D City Models a new mapping feature that will bring the central business districts of Melbourne and Sydney to life for navigation users. Personal navigation device TRAX 5000 from Unidenwill be the first device to integrate this map data with public availability next week on the...

Google announced this morning yet another add-on to Google Earth called Building maker, a web tool which allows ordinary people to create in a few minutes 3D buildings for Google Earth. As explained by Google: “Basically, you pick a building and construct a model of it using aerial photos and simple 3D shapes – both of...

Last week WorldView-2, a high-resolution, remote-sensing satellite launched by DigitalGlobe has been successfully placed into orbit. WorldView-2 is currently undergoing a calibration and check-out period and DigitalGlobe expects imagery products and services from this satellite to be commercially available in three months....