Nokia's navigation subsidiary Navteq has added 44 Indian cities to its maps, enabling street-level details, turn-by-turn navigation and directions for users. It now covers a total of 84 Indian cities with 1.4 million points of interest such as ATMs, hospitals, petrol pumps etc which can be found using the local search. But when we visited the company's site which hosts Navteq Beta, the new version of map, only western and southern India seem to have been covered; Himachal Pradesh, UP and Eastern India have not yet been mapped. A search for roads and points of interest in these regions gave no results. This is surprising because Navteq powers Microsoft's Maps which cover 29 cities including Kolkata, Kanpur, Bhubhaneshwar and other mid-India and eastern cities which are not seen covered in the Navteq maps. Nokia's President and CEO Olli Pekki- Kallasuvo announced at the recently held Nokia World 2009 in Stuttgart that Social Location or location-aware presence, as it is called more generically, would be key for the company this year. The company has tied up with Facebook to launch Lifecasting, a widget for N97 and N97 Mini handsets to publish the user's location on Facebook and will build more social networking features around it. New Global Production Centre; Low Cost Navigation? Navteq has set up a global production centre in Mumbai that will be the largest worldwide for the company, Reuters reported. Employees will primarily be geo-coders, who will convert street addresses and locations into latitudes and longitudes which can…
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Nokia’s Navteq Adds 44 Cities To Maps; Sets Up Global Production Centre; No Traffic Updates Yet
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