Here (navigation)

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HERE.com

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Basic data

developer HERE Global BV
Publishing year 2012
Current  version 3.09
operating system Symbian , Maemo , MeeGo , Windows , Windows Phone , Windows RT , Firefox OS , Mac OS X , Sailfish OS , Android , iOS
License proprietary
German speaking Yes
www.here.com

HERE or Here.com (formerly Smart2Go , Map24 , Navteq , Ovi Maps and Nokia Maps ) is an online - spatial service and a navigation program , originally from Nokia for Nokia smartphones was developed. Special features of the navigation solution on mobile phones were the independence of an internet connection due to the storage of the spatial data material on the mobile device and the fact that it was free of charge for personal, non-commercial purposes.

The company of the same name develops and markets the spatial data service. It has its headquarters for the EMEA economic region in Veldhoven .

history

2007 Nokia took over 8 billion US dollars Navteq. In addition to Nokia Maps and Nokia Drive , Bing and Yahoo also built on the data from Navteq . At times, smartphones with street data and route guidance were a unique selling point of the former market leader Nokia, but that faded with Google Maps on Android . In November 2012, Nokia announced that it would rename its spatial data services Here and also offer them for Apple iOS as well as Android and Firefox OS . In 2014, Nokia gave up its device division and sold it to Microsoft .

In April 2015, Nokia announced that Here was for sale. On August 3, 2015, it was announced that Here will be taken over by the three German automobile manufacturers Audi , BMW and Daimler , each of which are said to own a third of Here. Nokia named 2.8 billion euros as the purchase price. After all the relevant antitrust authorities had given their approval, Here has belonged to the three automobile manufacturers since December 4, 2015.

In March 2016, the service for the Windows 10 or Windows 10 Mobile operating system was discontinued.

The navigation app has been called HERE WeGo since August 2016 .

In 2017, a group of Asian investors acquired 10% of the shares in Here, the shares of the previous owners Audi, BMW and Daimler were reduced in equal parts. The new investors are Navinfo and Tencent from China and GIC from Singapore. Even Intel 2017 took a 15% share in the company. In January 2018, the automotive suppliers Bosch and Continental each took over 5% of the shares.

Maps and integration into social networks

Satellite images are not included in the offline map material, but can be reloaded via a mobile internet connection. For India, however, satellite images are not available even in the gross view. Favorites can be synchronized between a PC browser and a mobile phone using a Nokia account; routes cannot be synchronized.

With the "Check In" function you can log into social networks via Nokia Maps and receive information about your current location or share it with others. It supports Facebook , Qype , Twitter , Foursquare , Friendster , LiveJournal , Hyves , StudiVZ and RenRen .

Your own position can also be sent to friends via SMS , e-mail or WhatsApp .

Map coverage and distribution

The map material comes from the Nokia subsidiary Navteq and covers 196 countries (as of August 2013). Local public transport routes and stops are displayed from around 700 cities in 50 countries.

With the so-called Map Creator , users can not only report map errors, but also correct them themselves. New streets, points of interest or house numbers can also be added or deleted. A user account is required to use Map Creator . The changes are checked by Here employees and appear some time later in the online route planner, in the app and, depending on the update speed, on the end devices of the user.

According to their own statements, 1 billion mobile devices, such as smartphones or tablet PCs, as well as other navigation systems use geodata from Here or Navteq. These include navigation solutions from Audi, BMW, Chrysler, Citroën, Honda, Jaguar, Mini, Porsche, Renault, Skoda, Toyota and devices from Garmin, among others .

Map updates

Here offers map updates for the following car brands and automotive suppliers - partly directly, partly via the respective manufacturer's website:

Functional scope of the navigation

The functionality of HERE Drive corresponds to that of dedicated navigation devices.

  • Support for 196 countries
  • Voice output for 46 languages
  • Turn-by-turn navigation
  • Satellite view, terrain view and 3D view
  • Display of traffic information via the Internet
  • Display of arrival time or journey time taking into account the current traffic situation on the route
  • Night mode (optional, also automatic)
  • Favorites and home address
  • POIs ( Points of Interest )
  • Pedestrian navigation
  • Speed ​​warnings for 21 countries

Use in operating systems

Web links

Commons : Here  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ legal.here.com: HERE Terms of Use
  2. ↑ Download maps for your phone
  3. ↑ Consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2014 . Here Germany GmbH & Co. KG, May 29, 2015 ( Unternehmensregister.de ).
  4. ↑ Amit Ghosh: How Nokia Uses Oracle Spatial to Create the NAVTEQ Map. (PDF; 2.54 MB) May 23, 2012, accessed December 4, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Andreas Floemer: HERE: Nokia declares war on Apple and Google Maps. t3n magazine , November 14, 2012, accessed December 4, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Laura Bliss: Who Owns the Digital Map of the World? In: citylab.com. June 25, 2015, accessed August 9, 2015 .
  7. ↑ nokia.com: Archived copy ( Memento from August 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Press release from August 3, 2015
  8. ↑ German car companies buy Nokia's map service . FAZ.net from August 3, 2015
  9. ↑ Audi, BMW and Daimler take over Here. Wirtschaftswoche , December 4, 2015, accessed on December 4, 2015 .
  10. ^ Nokia completes the sale of its HERE business to a consortium of leading automotive companies. Nokia, December 4, 2015; archived from the original on December 8, 2015 ; Retrieved December 4, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Important information about HERE apps on Windows Phone. Nokia, March 15, 2016, accessed March 16, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Online report of July 28, 2016
  13. ↑ Here press release of January 10, 2017
  14. ↑ Intel to Acquire 15 Percent Ownership of HERE; Companies to Collaborate on Technology for Autonomous Vehicles and IoT. HERE press release, January 3, 2017, accessed July 6, 2017 .
  15. ^ James Etheridge: Welcoming Bosch and Continental as our newest investors . ( here.com [accessed January 4, 2018]).
  16. ↑ HERE Map Creator - Help pages. HERE Global BV, accessed August 17, 2019 (American English).
  17. ↑ HERE Map Creator - Login / Register. HERE Global BV, accessed August 17, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Here: Maps for life. ( Memento of August 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Here.com, accessed on September 3, 2013.
  19. ↑ Map updates for GPS navigation for vehicles and mobile devices. HERE Europe BV, accessed August 14, 2019 .
  20. ↑ In the lower right corner of the map app it says: © 2020 Microsoft Corporation, © 2020 TomTom, © 2020 HERE, under Settings you can find the HERE terms of use and privacy policy
  21. ↑ f / http: //jolla.com/media/documents/20131311_Press_release.pdf jolla.com ( Memento from November 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)