There was an interesting article about Nav system maps in this months automobile club magazine here in Germany. They were mainly complaining that there are no standards for map data for navigation systems! There seem to be 2 main map providers - Tele Atlas (Belguim) and Navtech (USA) - but in spite of this you often can't share the map CDs with your friends as almost every Nav system manufacturer customises the information on the CD. However, If you are lucky enough to be using a Tele Atlas system from Siemens-VDO or Blaupunkt you *should* be able to swap CDs with your friends. There also seem to be a lot of vehicle manufacturers using one of these systems (15 listed in the magazine). There are also 5 more manufacturers delivering vehicles with a Navtech CDs and a Siemens-VDO Nav system that can also use the Tele Atlas CDs if you want. My suggestion: maybe we should look at something like the Tele Atlas map system as the CDs are likely to be more readily available. There are other aftermarket companies producing map CDs for these systems, and they are of course mainly producing CDs for the most used systems. This makes CDs for these systems likely to be a bit cheaper too. Well one can only hope!! What does everyone think?

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