The New York Times adds to the pile of coverage about digital mapping data providers with this piece about Navteq’s field surveyors, tagging along as they survey a part of Queens.

Since Navteq and TeleAtlas don’t sell directly to consumers, articles like these invariably refer to their customers: sometimes it’s the online mapping services; sometimes (as in this case) it’s the makers of in-car GPS navigation systems. See previous entries about Navteq in San Diego and New York, and TeleAtlas in Santa Fe and Berlin. See also: More on Digital Map Field Researchers; CNet Profiles TeleAtlas; SF Chronicle: Digital Map Field Researchers; Backcountry Mapping; Online Maps’ Foot Soldiers.