Nokia's trove of driving directions and maps, as well as related location technology and patents, is one of the biggest and more valuable mapping assets to come to the market in years.
While Here was last valued at around $2 billion, offers might come in significantly higher than that: Nokia's trove of driving directions and maps, as well as related location technology and patents, is one of the biggest and more valuable mapping assets to come to the market in years.
As TechCrunch's Ingrid Lunden explained when assessing the bidders last month, the business's location technology patents, databases and location attributes (which a former senior HERE employee pegged at 300), made it "one of the biggest and more valuable mapping assets to come to the market in years".
And the more people that use the maps, the more valuable they get as millions of bits of data are gathered and fed back in.
These maps are more valuable to the scientific community and land managers when the accuracy of their classifications has been assessed.
Location is crucial to detecting patterns in public information; a map of crimes is more valuable than a list.
The interactive maps and itineraries would be more valuable within the museum itself, and that would require sophisticated apps for various portable devices.
The growth in the market led to a plague of "atlas-breaking," as the maps the books contained became more valuable than the books themselves, and the pages were cut out and sold.
The integration effort will be more valuable, however, if sources of data for the integrated map are periodically updated.
Its devastating impact can be mapped horizontally (with test preparation displacing more valuable activities at every age level) as well as vertically (with pressures being pushed down to the youngest grades, resulting in developmentally inappropriate instruction).
