Lonely Planet added to NAVTEQ: Travel Guide

12 May 2009

A new travel guide initially covering Austrialia and New Zealand was subject in a global content agreement between NAVTEQ and Lonely Planet. The guide will cover nineteen cities in Australia and New Zealand, with coverage of India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand to follow soon thereafter.

Additionally, reviews for thousands of POIs throughout Australia and New Zealand enables navigation applications to provide recommendations for accomodation, eating or leisure time.

According to the Travellers' Pulse Survey, 82% of respondents always or sometimes take a mobile with them on their travels, and 24% indicated they use mobile phones to obtain practical travel information. Whether driving or walking, people around the world access NAVTEQ® maps more than one hundred million times each day.

Lending itself to quick and flexible integration into location-aware application, Lonely Plant's content is precisely matched to the NAVTEQ map, enabling consumers to navigate to their desired destinations. NAVTEQ also leverages integration-friendly formats and innovative location referencing, which will speed integration into customer applications.