Who is NAVTEQ?
NAVTEQ is a leading provider of highly accurate digital map data and other content that powers navigation and location-based services solutions around the world, by using the most innovative mapping applications, such as: automotive navigation systems, mobile navigation devices, internet mapping applications, enterprise solutions (fleet, GIS, tracking, geo-marketing) and many more. Based in Chicago, the company was founded in 1985 and nowadays it has approximately 3,300 employees located in 174 offices in 32 countries around the world.With almost 100 million touch-points a day and more than 3 milion miles driven every year, NAVTEQ not only holds a 90% market share in the car manufacturers industry, but has also been selected by Garmin, Magellan, Nokia, Sony, LG and other important PND vendors to enable their devices. No less than 77 countries are currently in the NAVTEQ database with a prime coverage map and over 180 countries with an entry map, as teams of field researchers spread acr
