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Following yesterday’s announcement of Apple’s new maps app in iOS 6, it came to light that at least part of the technology was powered by TomTom. Now, TomTom has confirmed its involvement.
In a short release posted on its website, TomTom explains:
“TomTom has signed a global agreement with Apple® for maps and related information. No further details of the agreement will be provided.”
And, umm, that’s all we’re likely to hear, by the looks of things. However, that does suggest that TomTom isn’t just powering the turn-by-turn navigation system, which we thought might be the case. Rather, it seems to suggest that TomTom has ponied up virtually all of the mapping content for the app — though it would be interesting to learn what the “related information” is. Regardless, someone better give them directions to the bank. [TomTom via Pocket Lint]
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It would be very hard for them to want to dodge this question as they’re in the Copyright page.
Didn’t really need it’s own news article though, it could’ve just been added as an update to the last one.
Would the ‘related information’ not just be stuff like Tom-tom’s data on the average speeds for roads, to help with journey-time estimations? Maybe route-calculation algorithms for fastest vs. quickest routes?