Tele Atlas released MultiNet 2009.09, which includes 1.25 million validated edits sourced from community input from more than 30 countries. With this significant volume of community input incorporated, Tele Atlas continues to set the standard for accurate maps, dynamic content and routing intelligence that power the world’s leading location-based applications.
MultiNet is the only digital map database that is constantly validated by the tens of millions of consumers who use it. The latest release of the database includes edits sourced from community input across ten attributes and features. Users have provided active input that has helped identify changes, including accurately changing the direction of roads from one way to another, turning older street crossings into the roundabouts they are today and providing exact locations of addresses. GPS measurements have also helped to perfect existing road geometry and add new roads and streets.
In addition to the continued use of community input for updating features such as street names, direction of traffic and gradient measurements, Tele Atlas leveraged anonymous GPS measurements in combination with other sources and processes to validate and realign or extend the world’s road network in the 2009.09 release. This process makes the Tele Atlas road network in these areas even more accurate, to the highest industry standard of at least five meters or 16 feet. Highlights include:
– The validation and realignment of 116,000 kilometers of secondary roads in the United States, a complement to the existing freeway network already in the database;
– The validation and realignment of approximately 25,000 kilometers in Germany, covering the country’s entire freeway network and
– The addition of more than 1,400 kilometers of new road geometry in Ireland and more than 1,000 kilometers in Turkey.
Tele Atlas MultiNet is the company’s comprehensive digital map database, encompassing more than 30.1 million kilometers across 94 countries and territories and is constantly expanding to help our partners reach more markets and more consumers. In addition to the updates attributable to the company’s community input processes, the latest release includes significant global coverage updates, including:
– Fully navigable coverage of Romania and the Ukraine;
– More than 17,000 kilometers of new coverage in Malaysia and
– Expanded coverage in Thailand that now delivers 80 percent of the country’s road network with full attribution.
To update its maps, Tele Atlas captures and verifies changes from thousands of global sources, ranging from government documents and public safety officials to construction companies and truck drivers, as well as satellite and aerial imagery.
