Tele Atlas Adds Reality To Navigation With 3d

Tele Atlas announced this morning that it will be adding 3D Advanced City Models to its portfolio of mapping innovations. Advanced City Models use BLOM aerial imagery to create a photorealistic map that crosses over more accurately to the real world, in essence making navigation simpler. For now, it looks like Tele Atlas will focus mainly on big city centers with a release in Europe next month, followed by more cities in subsequent quarterly releases.

The TomTom-owned digital mapping powerhouse says it expects to cover hundreds of cities with Advanced City Models in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific by 2010. Tele Atlas maps are used on TomTom, Mio and Pioneer portable navigation devices, as well as Sony’s PSP and Google’s navigation products.

Air Force Space Command Committed To Gps Health

The U.S Air Force and Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) have been the diligent stewards of GPS since its conception in the 1970s and continue its commitment to this critical component of our National Infrastructure, stated the agencies today in a press release from Peterson Air Force Base.

Skyhook Adds Cell Towers

Skyhook Wireless has unveiled XPS 2.0, its next-generation hybrid positioning system that combines signals from cellular broadcast towers to its hybrid Wi-Fi and GPS system.

Gps Performance Document Updated

The National Executive Committee for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) has released an updated civil GPS Standard Positioning Service Performance Standard, committing the United States Department of Defense (DoD) to an improved level of GPS accuracy for civilian signals.

Maestro 4700 Gps

Rich Owings of the excellent GPS Tracklog publication did some digging through the FCC database and of all things he found the Magellan Maestro 4700. We haven’t seen anything substantial from Magellan in a while as it’s undergone some consolidation after being purchased by MiTAC, also the parent of Mio. So this surprised me, but FCC filings don’t lie. According to the user manual (PDF), the latest Maestro will support voice commands, have a 4.7-inch OneTouch user interface, Bluetooth and traffic alerts. Nothing special by the looks of it. Magellan hasn’t announced a price or release date (or anything at all for that matter) but I’m sure it’ll come in short order.

Medion Gopal P4445

MEDION GoPal P4445 is quite new in Europe. It offers an unusual flat screen measuring 4.7″, maps of Europe (Q4/2008), Traffic Message Channel receiver, 2GB internal memory, text-to-Speech, MP3 player, Bluetooth, and even a fingerprint sensor. The GPS receiver is SiRF starIII which comes with SiRFInstantFixII. All the heavy weight is lifted by the Samsung 400 MHz processor.

What makes Medion GoPal 4445 more high-end than most other devices out there is the voice commands capability. In order to keep your hands on the wheel, the GPS navigation system can be controlled easily by voice whether it is address input, volume or traffic information – the device understands a variety of commands.

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Mobiado Grand 350prl

Mobiado has a new luxury phone out called Grand 350PRL. We do not really care too much about these luxury phones unless they have a GPS receiver. Mobiado Grand 350PRL - which was just announced today - has a good set of features which integrates a GPS receiver.

The device comes unlocked and will work anywhere within the GSM/EGSM 850/900/1800/1900 network range. It also does HSDPA, come with 3.5MP camera, has a sharp 2.36″ screen, bluetooth, and a micro USB card reader.

Not sure where you can pick one of these up or for how much but if we do we’ll let you know… via