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Netherlands-based mapping information business HERE Technologies (trading as HERE) is a international group dealing with mapping, place information and associated automotive services to individuals and companies. It is majority-owned by a consortium of German automobile business (particularly Audi, BMW, Daimler) and American semiconductor business Intel whilst other companies likewise own minority stakes.
HERE is presently based in The Netherlands. HERE records place content such as road networks, structures, parks and traffic patterns. It then offers or certifies that mapping content, along with map related navigation and location services to other services such as Alpine, Garmin, BMW, Oracle and . This third-party licensing makes up the core of the company's organization.
It provides location services through its own HERE applications, and also for GIS and government clients and other companies, such as Bing, Facebook and Yahoo! Maps. HERE has maps of almost 200 countries, offers voice assisted navigation in 94 countries, provides live traffic information in 33 nations and has indoor maps readily available for about 49,000 unique structures in 45 countries.
History [modify] HERE has actually constructed its mapping and place organization by acquiring place technology; the business is a combination of what was previously and Nokia Maps. Navteq was an American company founded in 1985 as Karlin & Collins, Inc., later on referred to as Navigation Technologies Corporation and ultimately as Navteq. At the time of its acquisition by Nokia, Navteq was the biggest maker of automotive-grade map data utilized in automobile navigation equipment.
It was developed by an EU consortium called Tell, Maris. Nokia gained the rights to the software when it got Berlin-based path preparation software company Gate 5 in August 2006, which has actually become the foundation for the company's mapping business. It then made the Smart2Go application complimentary to download. Check Here For More by Nokia [modify] In October 2007, Nokia acquired Navteq for $8.