2010 Nav comments

[ard]

I am very unimpressed with the Teleatlas dataset. I think this is the root of the problem.

German companies just cannot appreciate the importance to the consumer of these 'creature comforts'... they kind of view this as "well we need a Nav, how can we cheaply contract for a nav system" and then they run it as a vendor-based project. As opposed to other companies that recognize that the 'end user experience' will be comprised of driving AND 'surfing', and they therefore place as much emphasis on the electronics as the mechanicals...

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