https://www.radiofreemobile.com/google-here-and-tomtom-the-gauntlet/ To entertain as well as inform Fri, 18 Apr 2025 06:25:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.26 https://www.radiofreemobile.com/google-here-and-tomtom-the-gauntlet/#comment-3036 Sun, 23 Sep 2018 13:50:17 +0000 http://radiofreemobile.com/?p=6594#comment-3036 Hi Peter. There is no technical reason why Google Maps cannot be downloaded to the vehicle. Its been a preference of Googe’s because traffic = money for Google as the map is free. This is why it demands that the device be online all the time. In fact you can download portions of Google Maps to a device for offline usage. The figure of $25 is my estimate of total map revs divided by cars shipped. Pretty sure there will be volume discounts.

]]> https://www.radiofreemobile.com/google-here-and-tomtom-the-gauntlet/#comment-3026 Fri, 21 Sep 2018 18:08:44 +0000 http://radiofreemobile.com/?p=6594#comment-3026 OEM’s will continue to use HERE or TomTom because otherwise you would require the car to be always online, including data plan. The onboard map will be either the main map or the fallback map, depending on which navigation he prefers. A branded navigation experiece in the car is a huge plus in terms of appearance, the $25 is easily worth the cost. In my book the price is around $50 though. TomTom has customers signed (including large unknown US OEM) for hybrid maps. On board with realtime updates through cloud.

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