There are just two major map suppliers - Tele Atlas and Navteq and they have massive teams of people working on this. Drivers on all the major roads of Europe, people at computers assembling and adding changes - its a huge industry. In the weeks that follow, we'll be covering how to update devices from Tom Tom and Magellan, among others. Updating the maps on your GPS device used to be a complete pain in the butt. Here at Landis Media, we employ 5 people just to update the location and POI information which we supply. However - maps are so much more complicated than locations. Google Maps (GM) on the web and Google Earth (GE) as a 3D interactive atlas software application are ideal tools for sharing geographical information in a simple way. Once the cleaning was done I looked at my SSD on the computer (running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit) & noticed that I had lost ALOT of space and proceeded to do the following. I pressed the window key and the letter E on my keyboard and at the top right corner of the screen I clicked search computer, size and then gigantic and saw for some reason or another all the downloaded files were on my "C" drive.
|