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Important map-related factors
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Transnavicom maps
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Maps of international providers
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Maps of local providers
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Accuracy
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Maximum
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Different, depending on specific regions
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Maximum for the provider’s region провайдера
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Relevance
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Always up-to-date as of the day of delivery
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Selective updating at the day of a scheduled release
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Selective updating
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Frequency of updating
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Monthly, or as required by the customer
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Quarterly
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Yearly, or more often, at provider’s discretion
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Source of data
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Local providers, own materials
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Initial purchase from a local provider, further development and updating using own resources
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Own materials
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Cost
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The same price for any city or country, 30-50% cheaper than what any competitor can offer
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High cost, regular payments (royalty)
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High cost
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Coverage
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Full coverage of 257 countries and over 500,000 cities and towns
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Partial coverage of 30-50 countries, partial coverage of cities and towns
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Full or partial coverage in one country
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Payment methods
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One-off payment using any method convenient for the client
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Regular loyalty payments to current account
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Payment as agreed with the client
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Speed of response to a commercial inquiry
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Within a business day
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3-7 days
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7 days or longer
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Speed of provision of a sample and full map
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Up to 3 business days
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Sample – 10+ days
Full map – 30+ days
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May take months…
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Closing a contract
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As required by the customer
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Mandatory
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Mandatory
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Data format
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Open, international, universal, single specification
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Format of the internal database, own specification
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Closed, internally used format and their own specification
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Assistance in data processing, conversion, and integration in a customer’s product
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Provided as a part of free-of-charge technical support
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Not provided
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Paid-basis, provided they have experience and specialists
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