"Future of Navigation" on 9/22.

[mvl]

A mac site has reported that journalists are being asked to attend a "future of navigation" presentation by Tomtom on 9/22.

While the mac site thinks it's the iPhone app, I doubt it. My guess is that it's something bigger.

There was an interesting article on cnn, showcasing the 3D capabilities of the new Teleatlas maps. I suspect this could be the presentation. Perhaps concurrent with announcing the next generation Tomtom GO or Carminat-like solution.

If this guess is right, its kind of a bummer. 3D images to are only a "nice to have" for driving, although useful for walking apps. I'd prefer that Teleatlas focus their energy on fixing all our mapshare corrections so we at least have reliable roads.

 

[dhn]

You may be very disappointed, mvl.

 

[doctormstein1]

You may be very disappointed, mvl.

So what do you know that you are not telling us

 

[gatorguy]

He can't say

 

[mvl]

We'll, the "future of navigation" announcement is coming before we wake up.

The presentation is 10:30am - 2 pm Netherlands time = 4:30am - 8am eastern time (Tuesday).

The only hints publicly released so far is this document.

 

[gatorguy]

No official news release yet, but I've understood that TT will be discussing their open-source initiative with TA mapping, their plans for additional supported platforms for their mobile solution, re-announce the recently added live devices, that type of thing. Nothing really surprising was expected, but of course we never know until it hits the press.