Navigation devices are everywhere and just keep getting better and better thanks to the 3D maps provided by the likes of Tele Atlas (owned by TomTom) and NAVTEQ (owned by Nokia).
It now transpires that Tele Atlas is announcing its photorealistic (i.e. textured) "Advanced City Models" destined for in-car and portable navigation systems and mobile devices. In June, Tele Atlas will release 40 maps based on BLOM arial imagery for cities across Europe. Hundreds more cities, including those in North America and Asia, will be available in 2010.It is important to note Google already has laid ink to paper to give it rights to Tele Atlas maps for use in Google's mobile, desktop, and on-line offerings, and with Tele Atlas maps loaded on PSPs and navigators from Pioneer, Mio (and of course TomTom) just think of this as a hint of what's to come.
Personally this is a very exciting piece of news as GPS navigation, despite small steps here and there, never really embraced 3D urban modelling, especially one where the models come in a textured capacity. More news on this one when the textured 3D maps become readily available.
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