MapQuest and Tele Atlas Team to Deliver New Enterprise Software Offering
AirLink first customer to leverage new, bundled solution for its Mobile Resource Management application
DENVER, CO 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 a 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 Airlink
Airlink Communications, Inc., builds 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 management, and a family of 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, providing two-way management and control of remote assets in real time.
Airlink's powerful, flexible wireless platforms have been in use for over 7 years in public safety, mobile asset management, supply chain logistics, homeland security, retail financial, redundant router communications, traffic management, AMR, and SCADA. www.airlink.com
About MapQuest
MapQuest helps people find places. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado and Mountville, Pennsylvania, MapQuest offers Web, Wireless, Business Solutions, and Published products worldwide. MapQuest.com, both the top mapping and directories site on the Web according to comScore Media Metrix, served 38 million users in February 2005. MapQuest also empowers more than 1,400 businesses with software solutions to location-enable Web and wireless applications, and is a leading provider of custom mapping content for publishers and corporations, producing more than 1.5 billion pages of printed maps every year. MapQuest.com Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of America Online, Inc.