Here's part 3 of our little series "playing with numbers", offering some random datapoints mainly from mobile devices, PNDs and the usual suspects. Somehow focused on Germany ('cause this is where we are as you might have guessed already from our brutal use of Denglisch).

Don't blame the messenger on missing numbers - we harvested what is out there (pretty much, by the way).

No extrapolations, no nothing: if a number is missing, we don't have or need it. Everything future is guessstimated by the original sources.

Even if some of the estimates are completely exaggerated or an analysts' wet dreams: something is going on out there.

And this brings us back to our shameless self promotion: how will people navigate on the small screens of those mobile device they'll all be carrying around? Using maps made for vehicles ...?

To better understand our business case at United Maps, we started to aggregate and compile a bunch of numbers from public sources.

We'll share those numbers and interpretations.

Drop us a line if you're interested in the quoted sources.

edit: source are here.