Traffic, navigation, and mapping product provider TomTom has incorporated approximately 1.5 billion updates to its digital maps in a single month.

The updated maps were delivered to TomTom’s customers on a weekly basis as part of its effort to shape the future of mobility that increasingly depends on digital maps as an accurate representation of reality.

In a bid to provide more accurate and faster data, TomTom’s map database absorbs more than 570 modifications per second in real time across the globe.

The changes are a combination of geometry and road features and may include a new point of interest, an altered road junction or a new address.

“To shape the future of mobility, 1.5 billion changes to our maps in a single month proves the scalability of our unique production platform and brings us a step closer to real-time maps.”

TomTom management board member Alain De Taeye said: “The time between a change happening in the real world and this change being reflected in our map data is now much shorter, and considerably shorter than that of our competitors.

“Every change that happens in our map is quality guaranteed, so not only can we scale beyond any other map maker, but it also comes with the right level of quality for even the most demanding applications.”

Over the last few years, TomTom has been continuously optimising its professional mapmaking techniques with the use of community input from millions of map users across the globe.

Leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence, TomTom’s transactional map production platform ensures short cycle times between detecting changes in the real world and updating the map.

The faster scalability enables TomTom to deal with any level of detail in both its navigation map and high-definition map for autonomous vehicles.

De Taeye continued: “To shape the future of mobility, 1.5 billion changes to our maps in a single month proves the scalability of our unique production platform and brings us a step closer to real-time maps.”