One of the biggest map makers, Navteq, is starting to promote their new product “Navteq Discover Cities’ which is already shipping on a few on-foot commercially available devices.

It includes certain key attributes such as pedestrian geometry, mass transit stops and lines, neighborhood data, and dynamic events. Just like in full in-vehicle GPS navigation systems, “Discover Cities” allows for functions like proximity search, POI lookup, and even image tagging. It may work on a variety of devices since it can look up your position either using the standard GPS, or other technologies such as Wi-Fi, Wi-Max, cell phone tower positioning.

NAVTEQ Discover Cities has extensive data that helps navigation devices and applications provide a variety of routing options to users – including those entirely on foot, or with portions on public transit systems. For instance, when a pedestrian consumer wants the option to use public transit, NAVTEQ Discover Cities enables routes that take into consideration the location of bus and rail stations/ stops and their entrances/exits in relation to the pedestrian route as well as the train/bus network information, including transfer locations.

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Source: Navigadget
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