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Technically speaking: Isn't Nokia HERE also a global non-US map-service, seeing as Nokia is based in Finnland?


Nokia's cartography is from Navteq, a Chicago-based subsidiary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navteq


Actually, Navteq is no longer an independent entity since 2011-2012. The business unit is now called HERE [1] and mostly divided between Germany and the US.

It provides maps services for MS, MapQuest, Garmin, Amazon, Yahoo! Maps, Yandex, BMW, Oracle GIS...

But the Navteq brand still exists.

[1] http://www.nokia.com/global/about-nokia/about-us/our-structu...


Ah okay - thanks :)


Yes I was coming to post this.

Clearly the person who wrote the title of this message is uninformed.


Or maybe you are!




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