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Article: Charting a course
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- August 12, 2007
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Future direction? The biggest threat facing businesses such as
Navteq in the future might be user-generated map content -- a mapping
equivalent of YouTube, as it were. Google also could be a rival. The
Internet search leader is deep into research, development and even
acquisitions related to its mapping services, which include Google
Earth as well as Google Maps. Finding where things are at, from air
to land To map 12 million miles and 69 countries, Navteq has used an
estimated 100,000 different sources, from satellite images and aerial
photography to maps issued by local governments and commercial
companies. But to Judson Green, Navteq CEO, the "secret sauce"
keeping the company on top ...