Teleatlas

This is the firm that produces the baas maps for Google Maps and many sat nav units. You can send corrections to them here:

http://mapinsight.teleatlas.com/mapfeedback/index.php.

The online world is full of unnecessary competition, and maps are no exception. By correcting Teleatlas maps, I'm hoping that all the "mapplications" based on them will work better, but there are still too many organisations layering information on base maps in independent, incompatible ways. If there's going to be no agreed standard, then an industry standard is likely to, or perhaps needs to emerge. Google would seem to be a strong contender, even thought one or other of its offerings it doesn't always seem compatible with others, maybe because they've just bought them up from other developers.

We are missing out on so many of the benefits of technology because of unnecessary competition and the resultant need to get "proprietary lock in" that makes you stick with Acme electronics once you have bought one of their gadgets.

The way out of this is to co-operate to reap the benefits of technology.