NAVTEQ has upgraded its Traffic Patterns North America, its historic vehicle traffic database, to version 4.0, describing it as a significant update with improved travel time accuracy.
Mentor Engineering and location-based services (LBS) provider Telogis have struck a partnership in which Telogis will provide mapping technology for Mentor Streets.
Water modeling experts are working with the American Red Cross to rehabilitate water and sanitation systems in Indonesia and other tsunami-affected areas.
Current radio frequency assignments — which are static, inflexible, and inefficient — have a detrimental effect on military communications. A potential solution, the cognitive radio, uses an onboard digital map system to select transmission frequencies and potentially shape the RF beam.