It’s taken the purchase of TeleAtlas by TomTom to start doing something we had all assumed they were doing before; sending them map corrections and updates. It appears that all the Map Share updates (streets missing, errors in the data, new POIs) were collected by TomTom, but never actually passed back to the map provider, TeleAtlas, for them to update the core mappign. This meant that for some changes, that change was lost when a new map was released by TeleAtlas, and would potentially have never been updated by TeleAtlas as they simply didn’t know about it.

However, since the purchase has now been fully agreed, TomTom have announced that all that historic data will now be passed across to TeleAtlas to help improve the map quality.

Although we support the provision of the data, we’re a little annoyed TomTom have kept it to themselves up to now.

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