“I believe that the agreement will bring innovative and user-friendly mobile GPS experience to our users with Tele Atlas’ unique approach to combining community input with other sources to develop the freshest, highest quality maps and innovative location content,” said Hyoungmoon No, Vice President of R&D Planning Team, Samsung Electronics .

The two companies will continue to collaborate to deliver rich navigation and location solutions, covering a wide range of products and regions.

The agreement spans Google’s current and future map-based services and navigation offerings across mobile, online and desktop environments. These include the Google Maps and Google Earth services and mobile applications such as Google Maps for Mobile. The agreement also gives Tele Atlas access to edits for its maps from Google’s community of users, whose suggested changes can help the company further increase the quality and richness of Tele Atlas maps.

“Geospatial data enhances global search significantly by organizing data and delivering results based on location,” said John Hanke, director of Google Earth and Google Maps. “Tele Atlas’ map quality and the company’s innovative approach to business were the key drivers for our decision.”