NAVTEQ and NNG (Nav N Go) Demo Natural Guidance at CES

MaFt

NAVTEQ are providing demonstrations of beta navigation software that utilises their Natural Guidance data. The software is created by NNG (formerly Nav N Go) who make the iGO My Way, iGO Amigo and iGO Primo navigation software.

Natural Guidance is a system that makes navigation more natural. How often do you direct people by saying "turn left after the supermarket" or "turn right just after the pub"? Probably quite a lot more than you do by saying "turn left in 400 yards". That's what Natural Guidance does.

This is one of the improvements to navigation devices that I've been looking forward to seeing being put to good use since it was announced last September. See our previous article about the technology by clicking here

Hin3K · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 19, 2010 Posts: 10

I am not sure if this is such a good idea.
I still prefer to be told to do something after certain distance than being forced to look around for pub, shop or anything else.
In extreme situation we can find something like this:
"turn right just after that old man walking a dog"

MaFt · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 2:54 pm Post subject:

TonyD · Frequent Visitor Joined: May 08, 2005 Posts: 412

BigPerk · Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 2:53 pm Post subject:

I agree with the importance of accuracy (and we know how dodgy that can be already with closed/new roads, etc). But assuming that, and provided, as said, it's an optional setting, I think it could be very useful indeed. After all, even if some people didn't get on with it 'on the hoof', I reckon it could still be extremely useful during an 'armchair planning' simulation.

TTS itself isn't all that helpful either all the time, so I am often switching it 'off' (on the open road, where you can get distracted if you bother looking for road names that aren't there) and 'on' (in towns).

Let the market decide!
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