Tele Atlas North America, Inc., a digital mapping company
and a provider of digital map databases and real-time traffic
information, and infoUSA, a provider of
business and consumer databases and sales and marketing
solutions, announced an alliance that will incorporate
12 million points of interest (POIs) from infoUSA into the Tele Atlas
turn-by-turn map database product.
"With the addition of infoUSA's POI data, our navigational
database product gains unsurpassed depth, breadth and accuracy of
points of interest," said Robert Miller, senior vice president of
marketing and sales for Tele Atlas. "We partnered with infoUSA because
it has the highest quality POI data available."
The companies say the resulting turn-by-turn database will be available to power applications and services within the Navigation, Telematics and
Location Based Services markets. The Tele Atlas comprehensive POI
database can be tailored to offer any specific POI categories to meet
any customer needs. Both urban and rural POIs are included in the
database product.
According to the companies, Navigation and Telematics devices equipped with Tele Atlas powered
map databases can locate hotels, restaurants, gas stations, ATMs and a
myriad of other businesses.
"Our relationship with Tele Atlas is an excellent alliance for
infoUSA in the growing telematics and electronic mapping market," said
Vinod Gupta, chairman and CEO, infoUSA. "infoUSA shares Tele Atlas'
commitment to providing its customers and consumers with the
highest-quality database solutions."
About Tele Atlas North America
Tele Atlas North America, Inc., headquartered in Menlo Park, CA,
is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tele Atlas NV. Tele Atlas had its beginnings in 1983 with a vision
to provide geographic information in digital form. The company says it
focuses on providing content to key market sectors including
Telematics/Automotive Navigation, Location Based Services (LBS), and
Geographic Information Systems (GIS). For more information on Tele
Atlas products and services, please visit www.na.teleatlas.com.
About infoUSA
infoUSA (www.infoUSA.com, founded in 1972, is a provider of business and consumer information products, database
marketing services, data processing services and sales and marketing
solutions. The infoUSA
database powers the directory services of Yahoo! and
America Online. infoUSA headquarters are located at 5711 S.
86th Circle, Omaha, NE, and can be contacted at 402/593-4500.
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