Driving around town certainly grabs people's attention. Inside the dome is an array of cameras, these are video cameras that constantly capture images as the survey car is in motion. What has been revealed is the Industrial GPS antenna and a perspex dome. However once the lid of the luggage box is removed and stowed on the back seat the car suddenly takes on the looks of a Dalek from Dr Who. Article by Mike Barrett The Navteq Survey Car From the outside the Navteq survey car looks like a pretty regular Renault with a luggage box on the roof. Whereas previously the main equipment in the car was a laptop computer and a small display screen, now the whole car is jammed packed with technology, there was barely enough room for us to get in and film. We spent the day with the survey team in one of the latest techno survey cars and learnt how the maps are created and updated. Things have changed quite a bit in the three years since so we went back to the new Watford office to see how the technology has improved. The making of Navteq Maps: Onboard with the survey team Date 2nd June 2008 Introduction Way back in 2004 we visited Navteq at their Boreham Wood office in the UK to see how they created maps ( for the article).
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