Comments on: TomTom’s Mobile Network Strategy http://blog.telemapics.com/?p=79 Mike Dobson of TeleMapics on Local Search and All Things Geospatial Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:52:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Fred http://blog.telemapics.com/?p=79&cpage=1#comment-6178 Fred Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:45:53 +0000 http://blog.telemapics.com/?p=79#comment-6178 TomTom has indeed been logging with their PND and collecting via TT Home very detailed trace-files. I remember an announcement about a year ago they collected over x Million trace files or something. (http://www.gpsreview.net/tomtom-iq-routes-for-older-devices/) "TomTom has taken that data collected over the past year or so, and created new average time estimates for the various road segments. That data was then built into the new map in the TomTom x30 series devices like the 730 and 930." http://www.tomtom.com/legal/privacy/ And they consumers seemed to be sleeping..... Thanks Fred, I had missed the announcement and appreciate your bringing it to my attention. Mike TomTom has indeed been logging with their PND and collecting via TT Home very detailed trace-files. I remember an announcement about a year ago they collected over x Million trace files or something.

(http://www.gpsreview.net/tomtom-iq-routes-for-older-devices/)
“TomTom has taken that data collected over the past year or so, and created new average time estimates for the various road segments. That data was then built into the new map in the TomTom x30 series devices like the 730 and 930.”

http://www.tomtom.com/legal/privacy/

And they consumers seemed to be sleeping…..

Thanks Fred, I had missed the announcement and appreciate your bringing it to my attention.

Mike

]]> By: Matt McG http://blog.telemapics.com/?p=79&cpage=1#comment-6177 Matt McG Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:55:33 +0000 http://blog.telemapics.com/?p=79#comment-6177 Good question. How _would_ one know? As to the pricing the efforts of data collection serfs... maybe data suppliers avoid the advertising. Matt - There are a number of tradeoffs that could be negotiated. It will be interesting to see what happens. Thanks for your comment. MDob Good question. How _would_ one know?

As to the pricing the efforts of data collection
serfs… maybe data suppliers avoid the advertising.

Matt – There are a number of tradeoffs that could be negotiated. It will be interesting to see what happens.
Thanks for your comment. MDob

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