Intermap Technologies` NEXTMap Elevation Models to Enhance Digital Map Displays
for Automotive In-Dash, Portable Navigation, and Local Search Solutions
DENVER--(Business Wire)--
Intermap Technologies, the foremost worldwide 3D digital mapping company, today
announced it has signed an agreement with Tele Atlas, a leading global provider
of digital maps and dynamic content for navigation and location-based solutions.
Under the terms of the agreement, Intermap will furnish uniform 3D elevation
data derived from its 5-meter posted NEXTMap countrywide digital map database.
"We`re pleased that our precision elevation data is being used to enhance the
display of road networks for a full range of navigation services," said Brian
Bullock, Intermap`s president and CEO. "Tele Atlas is continuing to demonstrate
its leadership in delivering what navigation system users want - the world as it
truly is, in 3D. The immediate availability of our uniformly accurate 3D digital
maps allows automotive, personal navigation and LBS solutions providers to meet
the demands of their customers sooner, rather than later."
"Tele Atlas is committed to delivering the best visualization product to our
customers worldwide," stated Rik Temmink, Tele Atlas` global vice president of
product management. "Intermap`s NEXTMap digital maps set the baseline standard
for true 3D in-dash visualization and are uniquely able to deliver real world
views of not only the road network, but the entire surface of the earth. We`re
excited to work with Intermap`s NEXTMap terrain data, which allows us to take
navigation to the next level with a visually superior product set."
"Our first major supply agreement within the automotive industry is a
significant accomplishment for the company`s automotive division and benefits
the industry as a whole," stated Eric DesRoche, senior vice president of
automotive for Intermap. "Getting our NEXTMap data into the vehicle is seen as a
critical first step to supporting a variety of applications in partnership with
Tele Atlas."
Intermap`s NEXTMap data provides a uniform and accurate geospatial base layer,
enabling Tele Atlas to easily conflate other visual assets such as building
models, roads, and landmarks - resulting in a realistic visualization product
that matches the outside world.
The Company is delivering data assets with a targeted launch into equipped
automobiles in late 2010.
About Intermap Technologies
Intermap (TSX: IMP.TO) is a preeminent digital mapping company creating uniform
high-resolution 3D digital models of the earth`s surface. The Company has
proactively remapped entire countries and built uniform national databases,
called NEXTMap, consisting of affordably priced elevation data and geometric
images of unprecedented accuracy. Demand for NEXTMap data is growing as new
commercial applications emerge within the GIS, engineering, automotive, GPS
maps, insurance risk assessment, oil and gas, hydrology, renewable energy,
environmental planning, wireless communications, transportation, aviation, and
3D visualization markets.
Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Intermap has offices in Calgary, Detroit,
Jakarta, London, Munich, Ottawa, Paris, Prague, and Washington D.C. For more
information, visit www.Intermap.com, www.mobile.AccuTerra.com or
www.AccuTerra.com.
NEXTMap and AccuTerra are registered trademarks of Intermap Technologies
Corporation. Other companies and products mentioned herein may be trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective trademark owners.
About Tele Atlas
Tele Atlas delivers the digital maps and dynamic content that power many of the
world`s most essential navigation and location-based services (LBS). Through a
combination of its own products and partnerships, Tele Atlas offers map coverage
of more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. The company was founded in
1984 and has offices in 27 countries around the world. Today, Tele Atlas
products are developed with the insight of a community of millions of digital
map users worldwide, who are adding to the company`s unmatched network of
sources to track and validate changes in real time, and deliver the best digital
maps and dynamic content. For more information, visit www.teleatlas.com or
http://investors.tomtom.com/index.cfm. Tele Atlas is a subsidiary of TomTom N.V.
(AEX: TOM2).
Intermap Reader Advisory
Certain information provided in this news release constitutes forward-looking
statements. The words "anticipate", "expect", "project", "estimate", "forecast"
and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking
statements. Although Intermap believes that these statements are based on
information and assumptions which are current, reasonable and complete, these
statements are necessarily subject to a variety of known and unknown risks and
uncertainties. You can find a discussion of such risks and uncertainties in our
Annual Information Form and other securities filings. While the Company makes
these forward-looking statements in good faith, should one or more of these
risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove
incorrect, actual results may vary significantly from those expected.
Accordingly, no assurances can be given that any of the events anticipated by
the forward-looking statements will transpire or occur, or if any of them do so,
what benefits that the Company will derive therefrom. All subsequent
forward-looking statements, whether written or oral, attributable to Intermap or
persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by these
cautionary statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this news
release are made as at the date of this news release and the Company does not
undertake any obligation to update publicly or to revise any of the
forward-looking statements made herein, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise, except as may be required by applicable securities
law.
Intermap Technologies
Richard Mohr, 303-708-0955
Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
rmohr@intermap.com
Eric DesRoche, 303-708-0955
Senior Vice President, Automotive
edesroche@intermap.com
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