teleatlas tries to find new roads from google news alerts, navteq drives around

Each discovery Williams makes – 30-40 per week – soon ends up on a map of the country. That information will then become accessible to computers, GPS devices, and, one hopes, the car navigation system used by the UPS delivery guy in Indiana. But Tele Atlas has decided to plot the world by starting with the electronic news alert instead of the steering wheel. The cartographic competition has suddenly become intense.

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