Database contains compressed digital map data.
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StreetMap Premium Europe database includes data of more than 20 European countries built to ESRI's Smart Data Compression specifications. It includes 7.5 million kilometers of roads, house numbers for 350 mil inhabitants, and nearly 2 mil points of interest. Database enables loading and managing large digital data sets and can be used for any geocoding, routing, or cartographic application requiring addressing and locality information.
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Tele Atlas Delivers European Map Database Tailored to ESRI's Smart Data Compression Specifications
Enables Application Developers To Work With Full European Dataset in Seconds
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 7 - Tele Atlas, a leading global geographic content provider, announced today at the ESRI International User Conference the availability of StreetMap Premium Europe, a database containing compressed digital map data of more than 20 European countries built to ESRI's Smart Data Compression (SDC) specifications.
StreetMap Premium Europe makes the process of loading and managing large digital data sets faster and easier for developers creating routing, dispatch, navigation and itinerary generation applications. It allows developers around the world to load the map database as a convenient, single data source without going through a series of preparatory steps such as decompression, extraction and merging of layers.
StreetMap Premium Europe includes 7.5 million kilometers of roads, house numbers for 350 million inhabitants and nearly two million points of interest (POIs) covering a range of European countries, including: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Monaco, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey. It works with the latest versions of ESRI's ArcGIS, Network Analyst and ArcIMS Route Server products, and complements StreetMap Premium North America, released at the end of 2005.
StreetMap Premium Europe is robust enough for any geocoding, routing or cartographic application that requires addressing and locality information, continuously updated streets and addresses and changes to postal code boundaries. Typical users are in the public transport, public safety, fleet management, local government, commerce, utilities maintenance and healthcare industries, including emergency services.
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 thousands of 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 http://www.teleatlas.com/.
About ESRI
Since 1969, ESRI has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The market leader in GIS, ESRI software is used in more than 300,000 organizations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities. ESRI applications, running on more than one million desktops and thousands of Web and enterprise servers, provide the backbone for the world's mapping and spatial analysis. ESRI is the only vendor that provides complete technical solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms. Visit ESRI at http://www.esri.com/.
Barbara Shields, ESRI
bshields@esri.com
Tel.: 909-793-2853, extension 2641
Source: Tele Atlas
Web site: http://www.teleatlas.com/
