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United Maps

Detailed Vector Maps more content – more benefit

• United Maps GmbH ! 2009

United Maps Where United Maps comes from

United Maps‘ staff produced European and worldwide maps for more than 30 years.

Some of us made Carto Travel, formerly Germany‘s mapping market leader: cartography, GIS, editorial processing and licensing is our profession.

We closely work with a German university on academic projects and currently employ 16 experts in Munich and Eisenach, Germany.

»  Feb 2008: founded »  Sep 2008: (seed-)funded »  Nov 2008: started operations »  June 2009: UM-DE is ready »  July 2009: Series-A round

United Maps Summary

By merging licensed cartographic data sets and routing information, United Maps generates content-rich and fully routable vector maps, enabling pedestrian navigation and multimodal routing.

United Maps‘ proprietary algorithms and workflows allow the efficient conflation and matching of vector nets and all attributes with a high precision of +95%.

Base data are digital maps by Navteq or Tele Atlas and cartographic data sets from national mapping authorities*. For Germany, sources from BKG or AdV are deployed.

The results are topologically correct vector networks covering vehicle traffic, pedestrian navigation and public mass transit.

Quantitative gains are 50%-300% more streets and pathes, compared to conventional data sets. Additionally, qualitative extensions add precise point addressing and house footprints. A wealth of relevant POIs are completed and added.

United Maps offers products (comprehensively mapped countries, regions or cities) or project services.

As a first product, ‘UM-DE‘ is a fully routable, comprehensive vector map covering Germany in unprecedented detail and quality.

Austria, Switzerland and further 200 worldwide regions and cities are scheduled.

* © 2009 NAVTEQ [Die Grundlagendaten wurden mit Genehmigung der zuständigen Behörden entnommen]. All rights reserved. Geobasisdaten © Amtliches Deutsches Vermessungswesen und Bundesamt für Kartografie und Geodäsie (www.bkg.bund.de)

original picture: http://flickr.com/photos/greenspartan/2548517094/ - by greenspartan

»  hyperlocal detail »  relevant context and POIs » mass transit and multimodal navigation »  house footprints and house numbers

United Maps Digital Navigation Data

Digital Navigation data comes from two worldwide suppliers: Navteq (NT) and Tele Atlas (TA). Use cases were focussed on automotive industries and vehicle navigation.

Persistent trends in many market segments point to a massive growth in the Geoweb and use cases based on maps and location – increasingly on mobile devices and smartphones by Apple, Nokia, Blackberry, HTC or Samsung.

United Maps Why isn‘t detailed data being supplied by Navteq or Tele Atlas?

Conventional suppliers of digital navigation data predominantely generate maps by field research, using a fleet of expensive vehicles. This is tedious and time-consuming.

Navteq alone spent $336 Mio* in 2007 to update their map base.

Turner, A. and Forrest, B., (2008) Where 2.0 - The state of the Geospatial Web. page 6. http://cachefly.oreilly.com/radar/research/Where2.0_excerpt.pdf

United Maps Automated merging of vector data

(1) Licensing Primary vector data sets are licensed from Navteq or Tele Atlas. secondary data sets from NMOs (national mapping organisations) like BKG and AdV for Germany.

(2) Processing Deployment of United Maps‘ proprietary algorithms with ESRI ArcGis and SDE: automated matching of geometries and attribution for line vectors (e.g. street and rail networks), currently 95% positive correct matches.

(3) Editorial addition, GIS-workflows and quality assurance

Digital navigation data remains fully operational. Line vector networks are completed with missing streets and pathes, all attributes remain intact and are editorially supplemented and extended.

Fully compatible, routable vector data products in comprehensive coverage and consistent data quality.

United Maps primary data + secondary data

United Maps primary + secondary = United Maps

United Maps Results

In rural areas up to 300% more streets, pathes and trails. In metropolitan and suburban areas up to 50% gain – dependent on quality of primary and secondary data.

Blue is primary data from Navteq. Red shows the automatically matched results.

Navteq primary data | United Maps automated positive matches

United Maps Unique Algorithms enhancing data processing

United Maps‘ unique algorithm and processing conflates and merges vector networks containing streets, pathes, rail lines, waterways, supply networks and maintains a correct and professional topology.

Additional data, supplements and updates are automatically integrated , comprising correct geometries and comprehensive attribution.

United Maps United Maps closes gaps in maps.

By merging cartographic data and adding routing information United Maps generates the neccessary foundation for extending street and vehicle navigation covering use cases like ... »  pedestrian orientation »  multimodal navigation »  business process optimization »  tracking and logistics »  insurance and security

United Maps Additional streets and pathes for pedestrian navigation

Comprehensive, nationwide coverage of additional streets and pathes:

»  complete topologies and integrated, additional streets and pathes extend coverage in nature reserves, city parks and forests

»  enabling pedestrian navigation and orientation

United Maps Mass transit networks for multimodal navigation

Multimodal Navigation and hyperlocal mapping:

»  comprehensive mass transit networks integrated

»  full and integrated topology of public mass transit options (traffic lines and stations) for main and regional, suburban and urban railways and trams, funiculars, ferries and bus networks (UM-DE02)

United Maps House footprints and Geocoordinates enabling point addressing

Exact house footprints and precise address coordinates enable point addressing – extending conventional routing to street sections.

House footprints and point addresses in full, nationwide coverage: every single building is mapped.

United Maps Comprehensive POIs for location based services

Nationwide coverage enabling new location-based media and services.

»  Embassies and Consulates »  Hospitals »  Cemetaries »  Historical objects and Sights »  Landscapes and Sanctuaries »  Museums »  Parking and Park+Ride »  Police and Fire stations »  Schools and Universities »  Recreational areas and playing fields »  (...)

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United Maps Roll-out United Maps

»  UM-DE is available »  UM-AT (Austria) and UM-CH

(Switzerland) scheduled »  200 worldwide metroregions and cities

»  successful trials for U.S. and Asia

United Maps Contact

United Maps GmbH Agnes-Pockels-Bogen 1 80992 München Germany

http://unitedmaps.net/products.html

http://blog.unitedmaps.net

Stefan Knecht – CIO

+49 89 4521 393 11 sk@unitedmaps.net

Andreas Wiedmann – CEO

+49 89 4521 393 0 aw@unitedmaps.net

Carsten Recknagel – COO

+49 171 869 4937 cr@unitedmaps.net

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