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SpatialNews Press Release
Maporama offers online maps for Finland
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Street-level maps for all Finnish cities, towns and villages highlight continued International
expansion of Maporama.com
Paris, April 23, 2001 Maporama, European leader in online mapping and geocentric information services, today announced
the geographic coverage of Maporama.com is extended to cover all Cities, Towns and Villages in Finland.
Maporamašs online street level detail maps now cover 100% of the Finnish road network incorporating the roads and streets
of all towns and villages across Finland, and are available online immediately to all Maporamašs affiliates and visitors to
http://www.maporama.com. The extensive Finnish maps now available online at Maporama.com are provided exclusively by
Maporama in partnership with the Finnish location based services provider, Novosat.
"The extension of coverage to now include the whole of Finland in street-level detail demonstrates not only
Maporamašs continued International growth, but also the ability to provide highly detailed maps for our customers"
said Laurent Vermot-Gauchy, Maporama CEO and President. "Maporamašs Finnish street maps once again illustrate
that the most complete international maps available on the Internet, can only be found at Maporama.com"
"We are pleased to assist Maporama users to access detailed street maps of Finland," said Jussi Paavilainen, Managing
Director of Novosat. "Total coverage of Finland is an important addition to Maporamašs high quality pan-European
mapping portfolio and underlines Maporamašs drive to be the number one worldwide mapping provider online".
Since the creation of Maporama in February 2000, the company has experienced continuous growth at a fast pace.
Maporama offers maps of all countries worldwide covering over 635,000 cities across the globe, including over 50,000 in
Europe and North America in street-level detail. Maporama also provides door to door itineraries, driving directions, as well
as pan-European directories and recently started complete multimodalš services, integrating different modes of transport,
car, foot and subway for London, Paris and Berlin in addition to opening international offices in London and Amsterdam.
Maporamašs multi-lingual website is currently localised into eight languages, with more planned to follow.
Maporama SA, Paris, develops and markets Maporama.com, an internet portal dedicated to providing detailed geographic
information (for example town plans) across the world from any internet enabled device such as a PC, Palm-Pilot, WAP or
WebTV. Maporama is the first European portal covering all countries in the world. Using Maporamašs technology, internet
users reach their destination faster and companies obtain an easy and cost-effective way to publish details of how to access
their sales outlets. www.maporama.com
Finnish Novo Group plc is one of the biggest IT service providers in the Nordic countries. Novo provides its customers with
IT consulting, software as well as infra solutions. In 2000 Novošs net sales were 319.4 million euros and the number of
personnel over 2,000 people. The foreign subsidiaries are located on China, Estonia, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands
and the USA. www.novogroup.com
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