What do they know that we don't know? I have always found NavTeq more reliable than TeleAtlas
Robin

TomTom One v3 Europe, Navcore 7.903, Western Europe 835.2420
TomTom Go 720 Europe, Navcore 8.351, Western Europe 845.2645
Plus a lot of other PDA GPS kit, seldom used

I don't understand the logic of depending on your competitor for your maps.
This must have caused a great deal of development and retesting so one can only assume there is a very good reason.

I had been looking forward to a release of CPL using the Navteq Transport data base allowing road and vehicle sizes to be taken into account when routing. Clearly this isn't going to happen. I gues TA must have an equivalent data base so perhaps that is better. I believe I read somewhere that a release of CPL for Trucks in the USA didn't do to well - was that due to map quality?
Other products - e.g.Pronav - which seem to be based on Navteq Transport have not so far met with much enthusiasm so perhaps there are big issue with Navteq maps that as users we simply cannot see because they are hidden by the software.

I is also true to say that TT have shot themselves in the foot over TT Nav 7 for PDA's and there was speculation that Sygic may become the TT mainstream PDA route. I have tried McGuider and have basically given up on it so maybe TT are looking for a better partner.

It will be interesting because I understand a new vesion CPL8?) is expected daily.

Roy

I recently used CoPilotLive "pan-European" maps and found them to be terrible.

How is it possible that many, many major autoroutes are not in the system? Honestly, these roads take years to build; engineering and environmental studies go on and on before that; drawings, routing etc. are readily available, satelite photos show them under construction.

But somehow, CoPilot Live / Navtec were caught by surprise and these giant projects are missing from their current maps.

Go figure!

And when exactly was the last Co-Pilot V7 map update!....@@@@@@@@@ they have got to be the worst Sat-nav company I have ever spent money on! at a guess I would say that the "Latest" (only) map data I have is at least 4 years out of date, when you compare to IGO or TomTom who update a few times a year, I've had NOTHING from ALK for Co-Pilot V7.

Tele-Atlas = TomTom = iPhone

Just a thought

Hi,

Just to let you know that ALK selected TeleAtlas as an aditional mapping provider, it doesn't mean that they ditched Navteq at all. They will be using one or the other depending on the regions and partners.

That's all

Might be an idea to explain that you are from ALK to avoid confusion there Nelene.

Point taken though.

Darren Griffin
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I have been contacted by ALK today to put the record straight about the announcement made by Tele Atlas. Reading the Tele Atlas press release it appears that they were to become the mapping provider for CoPilot. We were unable to contact our PR contact in ALK as he is on his honeymoon sso we published the Tele Atlas Press Release with my own comments.

It transpires that ALK will be using both Navteq and Tele Atlas for map data in their products going forwards. This has occurred because certain un-named partners have reqested having Tele Atlas maps as opposed to Navteq. I have been reliably informed that Navteq will continue to provide map data for the UK, and it is unlikely that this will be switched to Tele Atlas.

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