10 years of GPS navigation history in Poland!
“Welcome to the AutoMapa navigation system – with me you will definitely reach your destination – Krzysztof Hołowczyc.” This greeting is known to almost every Polish driver. Ten years ago, on February 3, 2003, AutoMapa sales began, and Poland began to shine on digital maps of Europe and the world. The appearance of AutoMapa in 2003 was a revolution on the Polish automotive market. For the first time, Polish drivers could experience how convenient it is to travel without paper maps. Over the years of its presence on the market, AutoMapa has become a determinant of quality, accuracy and precision of navigation, and the word AutoMapa has become a synonym for navigation. Over the last ten years, AutoMapa has continuously set directions for the development of navigation not only in Poland, but also in the world. At the time of its market premiere, AutoMapa was the first navigation system to introduce building outlines and assign precise address points to them, which are now an indispensable element in most navigation systems. Already in 2005, AutoMapa included warnings about radars, speed cameras and other Points of Interest. This solution is also one of the most frequently used in GPS navigation around the world, and a year later the Targeo.pl website was launched, enabling the use of AutoMapa on the Internet. In 2007, AutoMapa made available three-dimensional visualizations of buildings in Polish and European cities and towns in its maps, which immediately became its trademark. Two years later, in 2009, AutoMapa, as the first navigation in Poland and one of the first in the world, introduced a route planning system based on the current road traffic intensity based on the latest IP Traffic technology, thanks to which information about traffic jams, renovations, changes in road direction or newly opened roads are transferred to AutoMapa via the Internet. At the same time, it was the first in Poland to enable the designation of routes for heavy goods vehicles, taking into account their dimensions, weight, load-bearing capacity of roads, bridges and viaducts, and the height of tunnels, and to launch warnings about the 500 most dangerous places on Polish roads, prepared jointly with the Police Headquarters and the Krzysztof Hołowczyc “Driver” Foundation. Safe”. In 2012, AutoMapa appeared as part of the SMOK system in the combat vehicles of all 16 provincial Headquarters of the State Fire Service. ” – Over the last decade of continuous development of AutoMapa, Poland has become a country that can boast some of the most accurate navigation maps in all of Europe, and the maps developed by Geosystems are considered an example of accuracy and quality.” – said Janusz M. Kamiński, head of PR and Marketing of AutoMapa. AutoMapa is not only about navigation on the device. These are also services without which it is difficult to imagine everyday use of the Internet. Hundreds of thousands of people visiting the Targeo.pl website every day check the traffic congestion in individual cities and routes, see the road traffic forecasts for the next day, and conveniently determine the route using a computer by sending it to AutoMapa via LiveDrive! technology. The database of over 650,000 Points of Interest (POI), updated daily by the social networking site Miplo.pl, contains not only a database of speed cameras, dangerous places and gas stations, but also hotels, restaurants and other databases, collected in over a thousand thematic categories. For ten years, AutoMapa has become synonymous with navigation. It is the most frequently purchased, most awarded navigation program and is still a model for many navigation programs, constantly setting directions for the development of GPS navigation systems.
Prześlij opinię