Last week at a customer event in Berlin, Nokia
HERE provided to partners an update about their map data collection tools.
It appears that Here is building up its fleet of 3D data collection across the world. From 114 cars in 2013 the fleet is expected to reach 140 vehicles by the end of the year.
This is however one year behind schedule, as Cliff Fox, senior VP core maps at Here was anticipating end of 2012 that his company would have 150 of such cars on the road end of 2015 .
Using stereo imaging, a technology brought by the acquisition of Earthmine in november 2012, as well as LIDAR, these vehicles are capable of capturing 700,000 3D data points a second, or 140GB of mapping data every day to create an exact model of the street they’ve driven through.
This data is processed by 1,200 geographic analysts in 188 office across 50 countries as well as 2,000 technicians in 6 production centers.
In addition to that HERE currently collects 38 Billion probe points per month from GPS navigation users and other partners
