[![TomTom's MapShare offers crowdsourced updates as a free daily download][1] ][2]
TomTom has seen the inexorable rise of [smartphone][3] [navigation][4] and decided that it needs a cheaper way of updating its head units. Its cunning solution has been to open its MapShare community to all 60 million TomToms in the wild -- which was previously limited just to [smartphone apps][5] and [select devices][6]. MapShare works by allowing users to update their, erm, maps, when they spot a change has been made, which is then uploaded when they get home. It'll now be aggregated and pushed out as a free daily download. Users can filter updates, deciding if they want ones submitted by "some," "many" or those officially verified by the company itself -- so don't bother trying to game the system to make your morning commute easier.
[Continue reading _TomTom opens up MapShare to all 60 million of its GPS units (video)_][2]
[TomTom opens up MapShare to all 60 million of its GPS units (video)][2] originally appeared on [Engadget][7] on Thu, 28 Jun 2012 09:33:00 EDT. Please see our [terms for use of feeds][8].
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