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June 30, 2008 4:40 AM PDT

Google Maps, Tele Atlas expand partnership

by Caroline McCarthy

Google Maps has formed a five-year partnership with Tele Atlas, the Belgium-based mapping company that was already providing it with geographic information systems (GIS) data.

Under the new agreement--financial terms were not disclosed--Tele Atlas will provide maps and "dynamic content" for Google Maps in over 200 countries. Tele Atlas will also provide such data for other Google geographic divisions, such as Google Earth and Google Maps for Mobile, and to future Google projects that may require mapping data. Tele Atlas, in turn, will have access to annotations that Google Maps users have added to the system.

Tele Atlas was acquired by GPS navigation device manufacturer Tom Tom this spring following a six-month antitrust probe by the European Commission.

Caroline McCarthy, a CNET News staff writer, is a downtown Manhattanite happily addicted to social-media tools and restaurant blogs. Her pre-CNET resume includes interning at an IT security firm and brewing cappuccinos. E-mail Caroline.
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by humanssssss June 30, 2008 9:57 AM PDT
Google is starting to abuse privacy of individuals.
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by surfer-from-croatia January 18, 2009 11:07 AM PST
Some of TeleAtlas maps are useless. For example: City of Slavonski Brod, CROATIA (EU): 100% errors in street labeling. All street names are there but all at wrong places.
So Google Map for our citty is uselless...
Maybe unofficial source used or TeleAtlas databases hacked/courrupted?
http://www.sbonline.net/vijesti/clanak1001-2998.htm

Thank You for a nice service like this... Shame.
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