Additional cities in other countries such as India,Indonesia,Malaysia,Singapore,Taiwan and Thailand are planned in the future.
Through this agreement NAVTEQ will be able to resell this trusted,branded and geo-aware content to its customers developing mobile applications. According to the Lonely Planet Travellers’Pulse Survey,82% of respondents said that they always or sometimes take a mobile with them on their travels and 24% indicated they use mobile phones to obtain practical travel information.
Jeff Trounce,global manager of client solutions for Lonely Planet,commented,“At Lonely Planet we have a long history of providing information about sights,restaurants,shops and other locations all over the world. Whether you are travelling or you’re a local,it’s important to get this detail in the right place at the right time,and this collaboration with NAVTEQ allows us to do this on a mass scale.”