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Originally Posted by james415 View Post
I looked into it. They are the same maps. Not sure about the licensing costs but I suspect they are the same.
Yes, for both products they are using Teleatlas maps (actually Teleatlas maps are also used for the Sygic products, so regarding data quality there shouldn't be any difference between Sygic and Wayfinder).

Teleatlas has a whole bunch of weird licensing schemes. They definitely distinguish whether you deliver complete maps to end customers or whether you setup an access on-demand service.


But who knows, maybe Nokia will come up with an own alternative to Wayfinder. After all Nokia has recently aquired Navteq, which is the main (only) competitor to Teleatlas.

Now that Navteq is part of the big Nokia family and Nokia therefore has own expertise, map data and solutions in the navigation area Navicore/Wayfinder doesn't fit into the picture anymore.

Last edited by iskarion; 2008-01-05 at 23:46.