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Road Speed Data
For many years, you have been asking us to help you understand the current legal
speed limit of the roads you are driving, regardless of the presence of a safety camera or
obvious road signage. However, once we started looking into this we were amazed that
there is currently no definitive digital speed limit database for the UK’s roads.
With over 250,000 miles of roads, collecting all of this data ourselves would have been
an enormous job costing millions of pounds and, much like painting the Forth Bridge,
would need constant attention year on year.
For the ROAD ANGEL Gem+
we’ve teamed up with Navteq™, owned by Nokia, to use
the road speed limit database supplied as part of their navigation product suite. This
ensures that we have all the major roads covered and get to hear when a new road or
dual carriageway is being built. We realise that the data supplied by Navteq is not 100%
accurate as local authorities are free to amend national speed limit recommendations as
they see fit.
This is why we have created
SpeedShare™ which lets you, our customers; suggest new
or revised road speed limits at the press of a button.
We have been doing something similar with our Professional Connected and Vantage
customers for the last few years using our CameraShare™ feature, as it gives us
10,000’s of eyes and ears out there – all happy to tell us when a new safety camera has
been installed or a mobile camera van has parked up.
Once you report an anomaly with the road speed database, our dedicated team
investigate the piece of road in question and adjust, where appropriate, the speed limit in
our master database, ready to download to you the next time you perform an update.
Over time, we are confident that we will start to develop the only truly accurate picture of
legal road speed limits in the UK. Thank you in advance for helping us in this endeavour.
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