Following the German consortium made up of Audi AG, BMW AG and Daimler AG, which bought Nokia's HERE mapping service for a 2.8 billion at the beginning of August, it seems that more companies are interested in joining in on the project, including auto suppliers and competitors Bosch and Continental , both of which are working on different projects at the moment. According to a report, Bosch and Continental showed interest in getting involved in "an open standard" , but information on how the collaboration would work was not disclosed.