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Armenia GPS Map, including many objects POI (hotels, restaurants, gas stations, etc.). Enter the destination using a color touch screen, and devices GARMIN take you in the right place.

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It shows map in 2D or 3D, as well as detailed voice prompts. It is even announced the names of streets and exits from the highway, so you do not need to be distracted from the road.
Source: IranMap.com

NAVTEQ announced the acquisition of Argentinean Map Provider, NAVKEY. NAVTEQ released its first map of Argentina in October 2008 and currently has 30 employees in the country.

In South America, NAVTEQ also provides maps for Brazil, Chile, Colombia, French Guiana, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.

Recently Middle East Maps created a newsletter for the site and GPS Maps, which will cover GPS map news, development, trends and market players in the Middle East and Iran. The newsletter will be sent out monthly, and for any reason you can unsubscribe at anytime.

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Source: Middle East Maps

In a new report, market research firm iSuppli expects the inclusion of GPS technology in cell phones to explode, reaching 79.9 percent of cell phones shipped in the fourth quarter of 2011 (amounting to 318.3 million units), against 187.8 million units or 56.1 percent in the first quarter of 2009.

GPS adoption driven by Smartphones
“The smart phone is the key product driving the technology industry today—and social networking services and applications spurred by GPS-related features are critical elements in the smart phone market today,” said Dr. Jagdish Rebello, director and principal analyst for iSuppli. “This is illustrated by Google Inc.’s decision to make turn-by-turn navigation, LBS and mobile ads the central features in its bid to take on Apple in the smart phone market, and make up the central pillars of its strategy to increasingly monetize mobile search.”

IWM co. digital mapping company announced a range of update and improvements for Iran GPS map. The new version of Iran GPS map releases with more cities and many improvements. (Read more)

IWM co. is the main digital mapping company in Iran which develop Iran Digital map for Garmin GPS and Navitel systems.

The new versions of Iran GPS map for Garmin and Navitel are available here.

To inform Iran GPS map users and customers, IWM co. sat up recently a daily map update blog (See here) with daily coverage of Iran GPS map updates, releases and improvements.


Iran GPS map news blog runs in both English and Persian.

If you want to add a new point to IWM Co. GPS Maps (Navitel and Garmin ) easily go to one of these links :

Add Point in Persian and   Add Point in English

In about three years the sat nav technology has gone through a drastic advancement so as the survey team, currently using the latest techno survey cars. Initially they used only a laptop computer and a small display screen as the main equipment for survey but now the whole setup has changed, the entire car is packed with technology with hardly enough room to get in.

The Survey Car
The exterior appearance of the car look quiet regular to other cars, holding a luggage box on the top. However once the lid of the car is removed, you can see an industrial GPS antenna and a perspex dome hiding in which when driving around the town, gains attention of the people. The dome contains an array of about 6 cameras that are video cameras which constantly capture images while the car is in motion.

Out of 6 cameras, three are placed to the front, one on each side and one covering the right shoulder view. Altogether as the car is traveling, the video camera’s are positioned to cover all road, side roads and footpath.
The data put down from the camera is then integrated with the GPS signal while each frame of the video is Geo referenced. In case there is a mismatch among map data, the image is reference in order to obtain precise information. GPS is the main instrument for the survey which need to have great industrial strength since it is a crucial system. The antenna works fine for ground but in case of tunnel mapping, Gyros and motion sensors are used as back up by the GPS.

The car has got all necessary equipments, a network and docking station for a laptop, a wireless connection between keyboard and mouse and a microphone which is suspended from the roof to allow the surveying person to report what he is seeing. A simple keyboard, touch screen display and trackball controls all these equipments.

The Survey Car On The Road
As the car moves around the road, the video cameras starts capturing the features of the route while the analyst starts dropping icon, describing the POIs for GPS track is recording all these information. At office, the datas are downloaded and processed.

Processing Data In The Office
The video image and voice file is reference geographically with the GPS position. These info when loaded into the system provides number of POI on the map which could be later used to determine the current database.

A database is determined as the end result of the information which helps to generate maps that are been currently used in daily life in sat nav device.