Garmin uses Nokia Web Maps?
Sat, 07/19/2014 - 11:08pm
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If you look on the Garmin website for a particular Nuvi model there is now a "Find a Dealer" button on the page. If you click on that button you are taken to a basic world map where you enter a dealer type and aa address/zip code and get a map showing Garmin dealers that meet your criteria.
In the lower right corner of that map screen it says the maps are from Nokia/Microsoft.
Now I realize that Garmin probably uses this facility because they got it cheaper than other sources but it looks a bit strange that they don't use Here.com that can supply the same functionality using the Here/Navteq maps that they use in their devices.
I'm just saying.
not so
If you look on the Garmin website for a particular Nuvi model there is now a "Find a Dealer" button on the page. If you click on that button you are taken to a basic world map where you enter a dealer type and aa address/zip code and get a map showing Garmin dealers that meet your criteria.
In the lower right corner of that map screen it says the maps are from Nokia/Microsoft.
Now I realize that Garmin probably uses this facility because they got it cheaper than other sources but it looks a bit strange that they don't use Here.com that can supply the same functionality using the Here/Navteq maps that they use in their devices.
I'm just saying.
necessarily weird. Nokia and Microsoft have a joint development and marketing agreement - the windows phone - and Nokia owns Here. The Here maps, which are actually Nokia's, are provided to Bing under the cross agreements between the different companies. It's either that or someone needs to update the web text.
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Actually...
Nokia bought Navteq... Then Microsoft bought Nokia's phone business...and with it came use of map data's from Naveteq, now called "Here" and still under Nokia's data and services offerings...
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