TomTom and Uber Deepen Ties to Develop Superior Mapping Experiences

AMSTERDAM and SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 13, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - TomTom (TOM2), the area innovation subject matter expert, and Uber have collaborated and will keep coordinating TomTom's guides, traffic information, and Maps APIs across Uber's worldwide stage. Also, Uber will fill in as a confided in map-altering accomplice to TomTom Update, prompting considerably more precise route and area encounters, directing, charges, and appearance time gauges. This will profit clients, drivers, and conveyance individuals on Uber's foundation. 

Uber's mix of TomTom's information and Maps APIs will guarantee a consistent planning experience in Uber applications across in excess of 10,000 urban communities all throughout the planet. TomTom routinely measures near two billion guide changes each month, which assists it with keeping up the freshest guides. Uber and TomTom will likewise cooperate to guarantee map refreshes reflect true changes like new streets, turn limitations, road terminations, and that's just the beginning. Uber will notice and investigate the-ground experiences from finished outings and conveyances; TomTom Update will utilize refreshes gathered from its accomplices to give significantly more exact guide information to TomTom clients. 

"We anticipate working all the more intimately with Uber and conveying stunningly better area information to improve the portability of the clients of TomTom's items all over," said Anders Truelsen, Managing Director, TomTom Enterprise. "TomTom's full set-up of industry-driving datasets and administrations, including exceptionally exact guides, traffic and Maps APIs, will assist any organization with improving their area empowered arrangements." 

"Precise planning is at the core of Uber's foundation, which is the reason we're excited to keep collaborating with TomTom," said Michael Weiss-Malik, Director of Product, Maps, and GSS at Uber. "Our association will help make significantly more unique planning encounters in our worldwide commercial center."

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TomTom Update is the main free area innovation trained professional, molding portability with exceptionally exact guides, route programming, constant traffic data, and administrations. 

To accomplish our vision of a more secure world, liberated from clog and discharges, we make inventive advancements that keep the world moving. By joining our broad involvement in driving business and innovation accomplices, we power associated vehicles, shrewd versatility, and, at last, self-sufficient driving. 

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