Having a map of the country usually
means having a hand-held book with
a street and road index. Terralink, a
company from Wellington shall be
producing next generation of maps by
making a video of every street in the
country. For the street camera car to video
every street in the country, it will travel
144,000 kilometres and will take about
two years to complete. The six roof top
cameras record the images at driving
speed, matching GPS locations of every
street, every house and even every curb.
The data shall be commercially available. |
According
to Berg
Insight,
2.2 million
passenger
cars in
Europe
had an on-board telematics device at the
end of 2007. It forecasts that the major
breakthrough for telematics in Europe will
come with the introduction of the eCall
system proposed by the EC, which holds
a high probability of becoming a reality
in the early 2010s. 
