TomTom completes the move to the next generation map platform
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See here for new announcement:- http://investors.tomtom.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=947443
World's first transactional mapmaking platform enables real-time maps
Amsterdam, 18 December 2015 – TomTom (TOM2) continues to innovate with completing the move to its new transactional-based mapmaking platform. This platform is the first of its kind in the map industry and a leap forward in mapmaking technologies. It furthers TomTom’s lead in delivering the highest quality and up-to-date maps optimizing on crowdsourced data alongside traditional mapmaking methods. This launch represents a significant milestone for the company and is the critical step to bringing real-time maps to customers.
“We are the first to deliver a global platform that allows for map updates to be continuously released to users,” said Harold Goddijn, CEO at TomTom. “The era of map updates in batches is over, now we can update maps as changes are detected. This puts TomTom in a unique position to start providing the real-time quality and accuracy needed for the future use-cases such as driver assistance applications and highly automated driving.”
TomTom’s new transactional mapmaking platform brings great advantages in efficiencies and minimises the time between detecting changes in the real-world and updating the map on an end-user’s device. A change can pass through TomTom’s mapmaking process, be fully quality assured in real-time, and end up in a customer’s map in just minutes. This new platform can scale to process new sources of sensor data efficiently, furthering TomTom’s lead in optimising professional and community input mapmaking techniques. End-users using TomTom’s real-time maps will always have accurate and up-to-date maps across automotive, mobile and location-based online applications.
“This has been a huge, complex project for the maps team at TomTom and I’m very proud of what we’ve achieved and the time in which it has been achieved,” said Charles Cautley, Managing Director Maps & Licensing at TomTom. “There is a lot of potential with this new platform and with it we look forward to delivering the high-quality map content that meets the growing customer location requirements.”
To see how TomTom’s mapmaking platform works, please click here:
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World's first transactional mapmaking platform enables real-time maps
Amsterdam, 18 December 2015 – TomTom (TOM2) continues to innovate with completing the move to its new transactional-based mapmaking platform. This platform is the first of its kind in the map industry and a leap forward in mapmaking technologies. It furthers TomTom’s lead in delivering the highest quality and up-to-date maps optimizing on crowdsourced data alongside traditional mapmaking methods. This launch represents a significant milestone for the company and is the critical step to bringing real-time maps to customers.
“We are the first to deliver a global platform that allows for map updates to be continuously released to users,” said Harold Goddijn, CEO at TomTom. “The era of map updates in batches is over, now we can update maps as changes are detected. This puts TomTom in a unique position to start providing the real-time quality and accuracy needed for the future use-cases such as driver assistance applications and highly automated driving.”
TomTom’s new transactional mapmaking platform brings great advantages in efficiencies and minimises the time between detecting changes in the real-world and updating the map on an end-user’s device. A change can pass through TomTom’s mapmaking process, be fully quality assured in real-time, and end up in a customer’s map in just minutes. This new platform can scale to process new sources of sensor data efficiently, furthering TomTom’s lead in optimising professional and community input mapmaking techniques. End-users using TomTom’s real-time maps will always have accurate and up-to-date maps across automotive, mobile and location-based online applications.
“This has been a huge, complex project for the maps team at TomTom and I’m very proud of what we’ve achieved and the time in which it has been achieved,” said Charles Cautley, Managing Director Maps & Licensing at TomTom. “There is a lot of potential with this new platform and with it we look forward to delivering the high-quality map content that meets the growing customer location requirements.”
To see how TomTom’s mapmaking platform works, please click here:
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just followed the link, clicked "Next Release" (upper right) and got :
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... World's first transactional mapmaker ... but not yet World Class Software Company
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Of course I'm almost sure there's NO other Release (currently ...), but a well written software would not display a Page error ... (or even better not display "Next Release" at all!)
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Is the old live traffic version still available somewhere?
Functions I really miss after the update:
- Checkbox 'minimise delays', so you could see what the delay was for the route without detours, which sometimes only was 1 minute.
- A refresh button. The page updates once every couple minutes (could be less or more), but I want to be able to refresh when I want it to refresh. If I refresh the browser it erases the route I entered earlier and I have to plan my route again. I can refresh it, but I have to enter the destination again, since the 'plan route' button is gone.
- A reverse button. The old routes.tomtom had a 'reverse' button, now I have to manually type everything again.
- The new fancy interface, is much more mouse-driven. Using TAB on the keyboard doesn't work, you need to click on the menu-items you want. Also it now has fancy animations, which simply take more time.
- On a mobile device the site is not usable anymore. The big 'plan route' window completely covers the map.
- I used to have al my routes saved as a favourite URL on my mobile device. But in the new mydrive, these URL's don't work anymore.
In my opinion routes.tomtom was superior to any other traffic info site.
However, after this update, Google Traffic and Waze have passed TomTom in my ranking. But the old live traffic was way ahead of the pack.
I really hope the old routes.tomtom is still available somewhere, or that MyDrive is getting improved.
This new MyDrive, in my opinion, really is a step backwards... which is a shame... and totally unnecessary.
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Very happy about this. And I'm using it again every day!
And we're being forced to use MyDrive (redirected). I guess this happened when TomTom City was released.
I hope the old version was disabled by accident, when releasing TomTom City or something like that.
And I hope the old, live traffic version gets enabled again soon!
https://en.discussions.tomtom.com/mydrive-connect-apps-474/routetomtomcom-mydrivetomtomcom-1000329
everybody hates mydrive compare to the old working solution.
>TomTom, if it ain't broke, why spend squillions trying to fix it?
indeed.
We can assume they want to have something better, but we are zillion years away from that now.
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