Did this press release make it to the geowanking list?
"September 13, 2006 – NAVTEQ (NYSE: NVT), a leading global provider
of digital map data for location-based solutions and vehicle
navigation, has been selected as a primary map data provider by the
US Government. NAVTEQ will provide road network and standard points
of interest data under a government-wide enterprise license to
numerous Government agencies supporting US homeland defense."
http://www.navteq.com/webapps/NewsUserServlet?
action=NewsDetail&newsId=443
So, if Homeland Security will trust our safety to a commercial map
provider, instead of handling it in-house, then why wouldn't Census
buy their maps from the private sector, too? That is, assuming they
can afford it.
Alan
On Wed Apr 25, at Wed Apr 25 8:14 AM, Joshua Lieberman wrote:
I have to wonder what commercial dataset Census are then going to
purchase in order to route their enumerators. Oh, I'm sorry, they
are going back to paper, aren't they?.
Josh
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