TomTom announces five millionth Map Share improvement report

05 Jan 2009

The TomTom Map Share community had grown to five million users by December 2008, from half a million users at the beginning of the year. The software enables users to make instant improvements to their maps on their TomTom navigation devices. After being verified by TomTom moderators, these updates are available to the entire community, ensuring actuality.

TomTom's Map Share community had made an unbelievable total of five million map updates by the end of 2008, compared to Tele Atlas' 15,000 user reports per month. The corrections are available to TomTom customers via the standard HOME software of TomTom devices.

Map Share facts:

• Hundreds of thousands of street names have been added
• Almost one million roads that were incorrectly blocked (or open) are now included or excluded from TomTom routes
• Map Share users in the UK, US and Germany make the most improvements