World News: Tele Atlas powers BMW’s next generation nav systems
Tele Atlas has signed an agreement to provide digital map data and local search content for the next generation driver information/navigation systems in BMW vehicles in the US, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia.
Under the OEM agreement, a first for Tele Atlas with BMW, select BMW vehicle navigation systems will contain Tele Atlas maps starting in 2008; additional navigation systems are expected to be powered by Tele Atlas maps starting in 2009.
“In many ways, the in-car navigation market set the standard for digital maps and triggered many of the innovations that are now driving the personal navigation and wireless markets,” commented Tele Atlas co-founder & CEO Alain De Taeye.
