First NAVTEQ[R] map of Jordan.

GEO: connexion, October, 2009

NAVTEQ launched a navigable map of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in August this year, with full coverage from Amman in the north to Wadi Rum and the coastal city of Aqaba in the South, the new map includes over 28,000 kilometres of Jordan's expanding road network and, very importantly, over 13,000 of the Points of Interest (POls) which are so key to navigation in this country. With mail delivered to post office boxes, street addresses rarely used and most places of interest (such as government buildings, hotels and restaurants) in Jordanian cities and towns well known, directions are usually given based on nearby landmarks. With its usual attention to local detail, NAVTEQ has therefore included a particularly wide range of POls which can be used as destinations. The...

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