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SpatialNews.com Press Release
MAPQUEST AND TELE ATLAS TEAM TO DELIVER NEW ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE OFFERING
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DENVER, Colo. And MENLO PARK, Calif.—March 5, 2004—MapQuest, the world's leading online mapping, routing, and global location services company and wholly owned subsidiary of America Online, Inc., and Tele Atlas, a worldwide leading provider of digital map data and location content, today announced the integration of Tele Atlas map data into MapQuest Advantage Enterprise, a client-server system that enables enterprises to integrate maps, driving directions, and other location-based technology into Web and desktop applications.
This bundled solution leverages a new data source to deliver MapQuest Advantage Enterprise customers detailed street level mapping and enhanced routing. Unique to the offering, the data set from Tele Atlas is tagged with location codes, enabling applications to more easily and seamlessly attach dynamic content and routing information to the maps. The richness of the data attributes offers customers a high quality and affordable data solution that is compatible with the MapQuest Enterprise Advantage product.
“MapQuest works with best of breed location content,” said Tommy McGloin, Senior Vice President and General Manager of MapQuest. “We’re happy to announce a compatibility of our platform for enterprise customers with Tele Atlas data, which offers high-quality mapping and routing data around the world.”
“We’re proud to be teaming with MapQuest to offer our data and MapQuest’s highly scalable platform to customers across many markets,” said Joseph J. Berry, vice president of GIS and LBS for Tele Atlas in North America. “Enterprise solutions ranging from mobile resource management (MRM) to fleet, and government to consumer and business internet sites will be able to enjoy the benefits of this bundled solution.”
AirLink Communications, a leading provider of wireless and mobile data solutions, is the first customer to integrate this bundled solution into its application—the AirLink Tracking System (ATS). ATS is a low cost, feature-rich fleet management system that uses public wireless packet data networks to transmit vehicle and location information to a mapping display console.
“MapQuest and Tele Atlas provide the perfect combination for AirLink to offer our customers the ability to manage their fleets,” explained Ray Fasnacht, president of AirLink. “This in turn allows them to reduce expenses and produce higher profits.”
About Tele Atlas
Founded in 1984, Tele Atlas is a worldwide leading provider of digital maps and dynamic location content for a variety of navigation, location-based services and geospatial products and database solutions. Tele Atlas’ database is a highly accurate reproduction of today's street network, enabling turn-by-turn route guidance on a high percentage of European, U.S. and Canadian roads. Tele Atlas’ compatibility with all major navigation systems and its open system design have placed the company’s technology at the heart of both consumer and business-to-business applications worldwide. From logistics to marketing to traffic and fleet management, in almost every sector of today's business and consumer world, Tele Atlas has built a reputation as an acknowledged pioneer and leader in the digital map industry. Tele Atlas (TA6) is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in the Prime Standard segment. For more information, please visit at www.na.teleatlas.com.
About MapQuest
MapQuest is the world leader in mapping, driving directions, and destination information to consumers and businesses for print media, Internet, voice, and wireless access. MapQuest, a wholly owned subsidiary of America Online, Inc. based in Denver, CO, and Mountville, PA, has three business segments: MapQuest.com, MapQuest Business Solutions, and MapQuest Mapping Services. MapQuest.com ranks within the top 10 most powerful U.S. brands on the Internet according to NetRatings. Serving more than 32 million visitors every month and over 10 million maps and driving directions each day, MapQuest.com is the top mapping site and top travel site according to comScore Media Metrix. MapQuest Business Solutions is the preferred provider of a full range of mapping, routing, and location-enabled solutions to more than 1,400 leading businesses across key categories including retail, health care, financial, real estate, travel, and automotive. MapQuest Mapping Services is the world’s leading provider of custom-mapping content and map-product development for publishers and corporations. Every year, they produce more than 1.5 billion pages of printed maps for telephone directories, textbooks, travel guides, corporate promotions, and reference works. MapQuest authors a wide variety of packaged map products, including road atlases, road maps, map posters, and electronic trip planners.
About AirLink
Founded in 1993, AirLink Communications, Inc. develops solutions that enable enterprises to control and collect data wirelessly from remote assets. AirLink’s core products are the AirLink Embedded Operating System (ALEOS), end-user software for data acquisition and asset management, and a family of intelligent wireless communications platforms. AirLink solutions serve police cars in Maine, tour buses in Hawaii, point-of-sale in New Jersey, gas wells in Oklahoma and remote site security in California. www.airlink.com.
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