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Originally Posted by sknaf
Don't know why we are stuck on a 2008/09 version.
I mailed Navteq, and they tell me they are waiting for BMW.
Aren't they the ones that make the maps ??
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Yes. But BMW provides them an updated list of BMW-specific information (as an example, one of the POI's you can search for is "BMW CENTER".
Additionally, each car manufacturer that uses the NAVTEQ maps gets a whole list of things that they can include / exclude from the maps.
I would think that there's enough of a market for updates that NAVTEQ would push to get the map released. After all, they get $200 from each customer for each update. They used to have 2 DVD updates a year, then they went to one a year and now it looks like they are on a cycle longer than a year (the "current" map is 2009.1 from October, 2008).