With Latest Maps of Middle Eastern Countries, Company Takes Lead in Delivering Digital Maps Covering One Billion Inhabitants Across Six Continents
‘S-HERTOGENBOSCH, Netherlands, Jan. 30 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Tele Atlas (FSE: TA6, EUNV: TA), a leading global provider of digital maps and dynamic content for navigation and location based solutions, today announced the availability of digital maps for Saudi Arabia and Egypt, bringing the number of countries that Tele Atlas maps cover to more than 64 across six continents. The total amount of road coverage in the company’s database now stands at 21.3 million kilometers or 13.2 million miles, the same number of miles as 528 trips around the earth’s circumference at the equator.
Tele Atlas digital maps feature detailed street-level and complete interconnecting road networks to allow application developers and device manufacturers in the personal navigation, automotive and Internet and wireless application markets to guide users seamlessly across country borders. The announcement follows Tele Atlas’ recent delivery of digital maps covering Central and Eastern Europe and South Africa, and is in response to increased demand from global customers for consistently detailed and highly accurate maps of all major countries around the world.
"Our growing base of customers and partners, among them Nokia, TomTom and Mio, want to deliver a comprehensive set of services to their wireless and navigation system users, wherever they are," said Tele Atlas Vice President of Product Marketing Basak Ozer. "Tele Atlas now delivers the most digital maps with the highest level of detail required to build and deliver fully functional, high performance navigation and local search solutions."
About Tele Atlas
Tele Atlas delivers the digital maps and dynamic content that power some of the world’s most essential navigation and location-based services. The information is the foundation for a wide range of personal and in-car navigation systems and mobile and Internet map applications that help users find the people, places, products and services they need, wherever they are. We also work with business partners who trust our digital map data to deliver critical applications for emergency, business, fleet and infrastructure services. Founded in 1984, the company provides maps covering 64 countries around the world. Tele Atlas has approximately 2,300 full-time staff and contract cartographers at offices in 20 countries and uses a sophisticated network of professional drivers, mobile mapping vans and more than 50,000 data resources to deliver highly accurate and up-to-date digital maps. Tele Atlas is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (TA6) and on Euronext Amsterdam (TA). For more information, visit http://www.teleatlas.com .
