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Tele Atlas Introduces Online Map Feedback Tool
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BOSTON and GHENT, Belgium, Aug. 28 // -- Tele Atlas, a leading global geographic content provider, today announced it will expand its map update system with Map Insight(TM), an online tool that allows users of Internet, personal navigation and wireless devices and applications powered by Tele Atlas data to quickly report changes to the company. Released in limited availability today, Map Insight will be made generally available during the fourth quarter of 2006.
Changes to roads and points of interest occur every day, and the ability to quickly analyze and incorporate multiple sources of input is vital to generating maps that are fresh and highly accurate. Tele Atlas already uses a combination of professional drivers, innovative mobile mapping van technology and other authoritative information sources to ensure that planned and existing changes are accurately incorporated into its maps. Map Insight adds an interactive, community-based perspective that Tele Atlas President and COO George Fink says is vital to the future of map development.
"Our goal is to produce the highest quality digital map data so that our partners can deliver the most useful information to local search and navigation system users. Advancements in technology make it possible for us to tap into the map community as a real source for detecting changes and enriching our maps," said Fink. "As a result, users will get more out of their maps than ever before, and the industry will benefit as standards for delivering the most accurate digital maps rise."
Mio Technology, one of Tele Atlas' application partners and a leading supplier of a wide range of personal navigation devices, plans to offer the Map Insight tool on its own website. "This tool offers our end users a great opportunity to participate in building and improving the Tele Atlas map database. It also helps us to interact with our most dedicated customers," said Paul Notteboom, Mio Technology Europe President. "It is a giant step forward in the development of the navigation industry, and underscores Tele Atlas' continued commitment to the success of its partners."
Tele Atlas' digital map data is the foundation for many of the world's leading local search and navigation systems. With Map Insight, users of these systems will be able to locate and describe situations where the mapping application does not reflect the real world and report them directly to Tele Atlas. The system will feature:
o A display of the most current Tele Atlas map data; users immediately can
see if their issue has already been resolved within the system.
o Digital analysis of data submitted by users in order to more rapidly
respond to changes in the real world.
o Quality control checks to ensure accuracy. Updates to the data pass
through numerous controls before being deployed in the next release of
Tele Atlas data.
Map Insight is accessible in limited availability at www.teleatlas.com/; under the support section, click on "Map Feedback." Tele Atlas' Map Insight also is expected to soon be available via additional partner websites.
About Tele Atlas
Founded in 1984, Tele Atlas delivers the digital maps and dynamic location content that power the world's most essential geographic solutions. The information is the foundation for a wide range of personal and in-car navigation systems, mobile and Internet map applications that help GPS system users find the places, products and services they need, wherever they are. Tele Atlas also works with business partners who deliver critical applications for emergency, business fleet and infrastructure services. The company employs 2,300 full-time staff and contract cartographers at offices in 20 countries around the world and uses a sophisticated network of professional drivers, mobile mapping vans and thousands of data sources to regularly update its maps. Tele Atlas is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (TA6) and on Euronext Amsterdam (TA). For more information, visit www.teleatlas.com/.
Source: Tele Atlas
CONTACT:
Dirk Snauwaert of Tele Atlas Europe,
+32.9.244.88.37,
dirk.snauwaert@teleatlas.com;
Erin Delaney of Tele Atlas North America,
+1-617-570-6352,
erin.delaney@teleatlas.com;
Web site: http://www.teleatlas.com/
