Mapscape BV is a
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-based independent
business-to-business
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digital maps service provider. The company was founded in 2007 by Henk Eemers and Ralf Stollenwerk.
It is active in the navigation and
automotive industry
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. Mapscape is involved in content aggregation, compilation and testing of digital maps for
navigation
Navigation is a field of study that focuses on the process of monitoring and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another.Bowditch, 2003:799. The field of navigation includes four general categories: land navigation, ...
purposes. The maps are targeted for use in the automotive industry in e.g. online and offline navigation and
location-based service
A location-based service (LBS) is a general term denoting software services which use geographic data and information to provide services or information to users. LBS can be used in a variety of contexts, such as health, indoor object search, ent ...
s.
The company's automotive customers include
BMW and
Volkswagen
Volkswagen (),English: , . abbreviated as VW (), is a German Automotive industry, motor vehicle manufacturer headquartered in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. Founded in 1937 by the German Labour Front under the Nazi Party and revived into a ...
, as well as navigation system suppliers, such as
Continental
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,
TomTom
TomTom N.V. is a Dutch multinational developer and creator of location technology and consumer electronics. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Amsterdam, TomTom released its first generation of satellite navigation devices to market in 2004. ...
,
Harman International
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Headquartered in Stam ...
,
NNG,
Bosch, and
Elektrobit. The company uses raw navigation data from companies such as
HERE Technologies
Here Technologies (stylised and Trade name, trading as HERE and here) is an American-Dutch Multinational corporation, multinational group dealing with Data mapping, mapping, location data and related automotive services to individuals and comp ...
,
TeleAtlas,
NavInfo, and
MapMyIndia which it compiles into the proprietary formats used by various navigation systems.
Furthermore, Mapscape is involved in testing and certifying a new proposed industry
standard Standard may refer to:
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automotive map format, called the
Navigation Data Standard
The Navigation Data Standard (NDS) is a standardized format for automotive-grade navigation databases, jointly developed by automobile manufacturers and suppliers. NDS is an association registered in Germany. Members are automotive OEMs, map dat ...
(NDS) initiative.
In January 2011, Mapscape was acquired by and is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Chinese digital map supplier NavInfo.
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See also
*Geographic Data Files Geographic Data Files (GDF) is an interchange file format for geographic data.
In contrast with generic GIS formats, GDF provides detailed rules for data capture and representation, and an extensive catalog of standard features, attributes and r ...
*Automotive navigation system
An automotive navigation system is part of the automobile controls or a third party add-on used to find direction in an automobile. It typically uses a satellite navigation device to get its position data which is then correlated to a position on ...
* Map database management
* ESRI shape
* MapInfo TAB format
References
External links
MapscapeNDS - physical storage format initiative
GIS companies
Companies based in North Brabant
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