There’s nothing like a good old fashioned government contract to solidify a company’s future, and NAVTEQ has landed a big one -- the US Government; NAVTEQ has been selected as the primary map data provider by the US Government, and will provide road network and points of interest (POI) database information to various Government agencies supporting homeland defense. NAVTEQ and Tele Atlas are the two largest mapping data providers today. NAVTEQ is used in many GPS devices, including those from Magellan and Garmin, while TomTom uses Tele Atlas maps. NAVTEQ is also currently used in many online mapping tools, including Mapquest, Yahoo Maps, MSN Maps, Google Maps, and Windows Live Local.

The NAVTEQ database is developed by a team of approximately 600 geographic analysts and includes detailed attributes from turn restrictions and relative road crossing heights to road segment access restrictions, one-way streets and speed categories that help optimize routing.  Additionally, NAVTEQ maps include points of interest including restaurants, hospitals, shopping centers and leisure facilities, making it easier to locate and route to many different destinations. 

Roy Kolstad, Vice President and General Manager at NAVTEQ said “We are pleased to be recognized as an important component in the Government’s strategy to provide infrastructure information for road and transportation programs and critical initiatives such as homeland security.”

The full press release is available via NAVTEQ's website