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  PointPerfect GNSS Correction Serviced Expands to Brazil Nordian and u-blox  have announced expanded coverage of the PointPerfect GNSS correction service to Brazil, a growing market for GNSS applications.  The deal between u-blox and Nordian will allow such applications as high-precision agriculture, but also service robots,...

HERE Technologies, Mapbox and TomTom court OEMs LAS VEGAS—Among dozens of mobility and auto companies at this year’s CES trade show, mapping companies took the lion’s share of news with product and service rollouts and partnerships. In one of the CES...

Quectel Wireless Solutions has been accused by a U.S. House Select Committee of having “problematic relationships” with the Chinese Communist Party and its military.  In a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, chairman Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., and ranking member Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., of...

Industry executives cautiously optimistic going into 2024... The location industry in 2023 had a mix of good and bad news, ranging from billion-dollar acquisitions and new products to global threats to satellite navigation signals.  The editors of Location Business News talked to...

The Overture Maps Foundation has announced the availability of more than 2.3 billion buildings through the addition of Google Open Buildings data set. Overture’s latest release, Overture 2023-12-14-alpha.0, includes the Google Open Buildings data, which consists of  2D building footprints derived from high-resolution satellite imagery...

Although announced in late October, Everfield’s purchase of French navigation provider Visioglobe fits well with the company’s acquisition strategy, which focuses on vertical market software solutions, a company executive said. The company has a leading position in the highly specialized Indoor Positioning and...

HERE Integrates HD Live Map in BMW’s 7 Series’ Personal Pilot, Partners With Techjockey.com HERE Technologies has announced that its HERE HD Live Map, based on UniMap, is now onboard BMW’s new 7 Series with BMW Personal Pilot Level 3 automated driving function. Personal Pilot allows drivers to...

French IoT company Actility has raised more than $17 million in new funding to continue to grow its Low-Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) technology for tracking and monitoring applications in enterprise markets. One of the company’s strengths is its ThingPark Enterprise...

First commercial devices supporting NavIC L1 Available in 2025… Qualcomm Technologies $QCOM this week announced its support for the recently launched L1 signals of India’s Navigation and Indian Constellation (NavIC) in select chipset platforms. The company, which is working with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO),...

HERE Technologies came out as the top provider in Omdia’s 2023 Location Platform Index.  The index evaluates major digital mapping and location technology vendors including HERE, Google $GOOG, TomTom , Mapbox, Esri, Apple $AAPL and Microsoft $MSFT. The report gave kudos to HERE’s electric vehicle (EV) efforts.  The HERE EV Charge Points product includes data on...