NAVTEQ Offers Map of South Korea

NAVTEQ (IL, USA) is offering a map with navigable coverage throughout South Korea through its wholly owned subsidiary, PMI (South Korea).

The South Korea map covers 100% of the population (approximately 48 million people) of South Korea, and is a fully navigable roadway map enabling door-to-door route calculations and turn-by-turn route guidance throughout the country. Detailed road network information, such as one-way streets and turn restrictions, is linked to the map, which provides NAVTEQ customers with additional information to create the most efficient routes for their solutions. The map also includes more than 400,000 Points of Interest in more than 290 categories and subcategories, cartographic features (such as parks, waterways and woodlands) and more than 7 million listings from the Korea Telecom business directory.

In July 2005, NAVTEQ acquired Picture Map International (PMI) to establish its presence in and to offer a digital map of South Korea.

Currently, the South Korea map is available in a variety of application Physical Storage Formats (PSF) as well as open interchange formats, such as ArcInfo Shape File format. Names and other text strings in the NAVTEQ map of South Korea are represented using a Unicode (multi-byte) character set.