Tele Atlas Acquires Digital Map Data of Mexico

Tele Atlas (MA, USA) is expanding its Latin American map coverage with the acquisition of detailed source data covering Mexico's highway and street network. The company also announced it will grow its operations in Mexico with the opening of an office focused on sourcing and data validation. A popular tourist destination and an emerging market for personal navigation systems, Mexico is also one of the world's largest producers of consumer goods. "Mexico's ports are experiencing a boom in container traffic, and there is growing need for maps that seamlessly facilitate commercial traffic from the factory to the warehouse to the... (read more)

2006-05-31 12:00:00

Tele Atlas Unveils China Map, Expansion in China

Tele Atlas (Belgium) has introduced Tele Atlas MultiNet China, a complete digital map of the country available with street-level coverage for more than 3,000 provincial and county cities. The company also announced it has opened a Display Technology Center in Shanghai, focused on producing visual enhancements such as 3D landmarks, 3D city maps and crossing magnifications for the Asia Pacific region. The company cited market research figures in explaining its expansion in China. "According to our recent studies, the in-vehicle navigation market in China is projected to grow from 80,000 units in 2005 to nearly 1.5 million systems by 2012,"... (read more)

2007-08-31 08:53:03

Atlas Services Group Participates in South West Surveys

Atlas Services Group has completed the acquisition of a 75% interest in South West Surveys (UK) Ltd. This acquisition aims to add further scope and options for the combined existing client base and consultants. Since 1978, South West Surveys has specialised in supplying highly experienced personnel to the offshore energy and telecommunication industries worldwide, primarily as offshore client representatives and marine project managers. SWS have undergone a period of managed growth since 2007 and are now a major supplier of offshore survey and construction expertise. With an evolving marketplace, both Atlas and South West Surveys share the view, and... (read more)

2011-04-14 12:00:00

The National Map and National Atlas to Merge

During this year, National Atlas of the United States and The National Map will transition into a combined single source for geospatial and cartographic information. This transformation is projected to streamline access to maps, data and information from the USGS National Geospatial Program (NGP). This action will prioritise the USGS’s civilian mapping role and consolidate core investments while maintaining top-quality customer service. The USGS will continue its long history of providing topographic maps, geospatial data and other geographic information by offering a range of scales and layers of geospatial information on The National Map Viewer and through US Topo maps. ... (read more)

2014-03-03 09:43:20

Survey of India/Tele Atlas Kalyani India Agreement

The Survey of India has announced that the Government of India had formally approved the agreement between the national surveying and mapping organisation Survey of India (SOI) and Tele Atlas Kalyani India, a joint venture between the Kalyani Group and Tele Atlas. With this agreement Tele Atlas Kalyani India becomes the first Value Added Reseller (VAR) of India's digital maps. The agreement allows Tele Atlas Kalyani India to release the first Survey of India-approved digital maps and custom map content within the public domain for commercial use in a range of navigation and location-based solutions in the mobile, internet, automotive,... (read more)

2008-11-12 09:58:30

Placement Software for Port-au-Prince Street Atlas

MapText has provided complimentary label placement solutions to MyMapbook.com which enabled MyMapbook to quickly complete a street atlas to aid international relief efforts in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The detailed street maps cover 21 pages of the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area, a total of over 250 square kilometres (100 square miles). Each page covers 12 square kilometres and is mapped at 1:16,000 (one inch = 1920 ft). Major landmarks, major roads, minor roads and neighborhoods are included on each detailed map page. Looking up streets is easy by using the alphabetical index. The GIS map data used for this atlas was obtained from... (read more)

2010-02-22 09:28:59

Tele Atlas Integrates Points of Interest from infoUSA

Tele Atlas (NH, USA) has announced an enhanced collaboration with infoUSA to incorporate millions of Points Of Interest (POIs) into its digital map database. infoUSA (NE, USA), a provider of proprietary business and consumer databases and sales and marketing solutions, validates and verifies that important POIs - such as hotels, restaurants, and gas stations - are in the correct location and contain the right information for its clients. infoUSA provides 12 databases for sales and marketing solutions, and its database of 14 million businesses is the best in the industry. The comprehensive database is matched to Tele Atlas' turn-by-turn digital... (read more)

2005-04-12 12:00:00

Unique 17th-century Atlas Sells at Auction for €600,000

An exceptionally well-preserved first edition of the ‘Atlas Maior’ by the world-famous 17th-century Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu has sold at auction in Brussels, Belgium, for €600,000. According to the auction house Arenberg Auctions, the work was purchased by a private collector at the sale on 26 May. Experts had valued the atlas at between €250,000 and €350,000, but it ended up fetching close to twice that price. Published between 1662 and 1665 in eleven volumes, the Atlas Maior contains extremely detailed descriptions of all the countries around the world. It comprises over 590 hand-coloured maps, as well as more than... (read more)

2018-05-30 02:46:45

Tele Atlas Licenses Intermap 3D Terrain Models

Intermap Technologies, the international 3D digital mapping company, has signed an agreement with Tele Atlas, a 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-metre 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... (read more)

2009-11-13 11:41:44

Google Signs Five Year Map Agreement with Tele Atlas

Tele Atlas (Netherlands) and Google have signed a long term license agreement that gives Google access to Tele Atlas maps and dynamic content in more than 200 countries around the world. The agreement spans Google's current and future map-based services and navigation offerings across mobile, online and desktop environments. These include the Google Maps and Google Earth services and mobile applications such as Google Maps for Mobile. The agreement also gives Tele Atlas access to edits for its maps from Google's community of users, whose suggested changes can help the company further increase the quality and richness of Tele Atlas... (read more)

2008-07-01 10:33:30