Nokia Maps, Building A Global Mapping Platform

Nokia Maps is one of the most powerful mapping service out there and it is powering 4 out of 5 standalone GPS systems. Today they released a video about how they build a global mapping platform. With that said watch the 5 minute video to find out what makes Nokia maps the best mapping service out there.
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Nokia Reveals The Secret Of Their Maps Service

Nokia Maps is one of the least popular maps service but if you don't know 4 out of 5 standalone GPS systems are using their maps. Just recently a few other companies like Amazon and Oracle has singed deals with nokia to utilise their maps. Also recently in the paris auto show a few major car manufacturers has announced that they will be using Nokia maps to power their built in GPS systems. Nokia Maps is one of the best maps out there now but ever wondered what makes it so good. Nokia has finally revealed how they keep their maps updated. The answer is UPS and FedEx, Nokia is using these mailing companies to get the locations of every single place. "with Google's driven 5 million miles in street view cars, UPD drives 3.3 billion miles a year". Nokia's senior VP or location said that they got over 12 billion probe date points per month coming into the organization. This all translates to up to date map data. They added that in 2012 they have used GPS data they received to identify 65000 rood segments. Click here to read more.

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Nokia Compares Their Own Maps Service With Google Maps And Apple's New Maps Service

 Nokia Maps (Top), Google Maps (Left), Apple Maps (Right)

Nokia Maps is by far one of the most popular navigation apps around but people seem to neglect it and most users say Google's solution is much better. The thing that many people dont know is that 4 out of 5 GPS devices are powered by Nokia Maps and most social networking sites are also using Nokia Maps opposed to Google Maps. So if you are seeing maps other than Google Maps chances are it is Nokia Maps. Here are some info of three of the maps services currently on the market which is provided by nokia. One thing which Nokia Maps is dominating is turn by turn navigation, they are having the widest coverage ever than any other competing solution out there now. 

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