Tele Atlas Expands Digital Map Coverage to 64 Countries

Tele Atlas Expands Digital Map Coverage to 64 Countries

January 30, 2007

With Latest Maps of Middle Eastern Countries, Company Takes
Lead in Delivering Digital Maps Covering One Billion
Inhabitants Across Six Continents


    `S-HERTOGENBOSCH, Netherlands, Jan. 30
/Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Tele Atlas (FSE: TA6, EUNV: TA), a
leading global provider of digital maps and dynamic content
for navigation and location based solutions, today announced
the availability of digital maps for Saudi Arabia and Egypt,
bringing the number of countries that Tele Atlas maps cover
to more than 64 across six continents. The total amount of
road coverage in the company's database now stands at 21.3
million kilometers or 13.2 million miles, the same number
of miles as 528 trips around the earth's circumference at
the equator.

    Tele Atlas digital maps feature detailed street-level
and complete interconnecting road networks to allow
application developers and device manufacturers in the
personal navigation, automotive and Internet and wireless
application markets to guide users seamlessly across
country borders. The announcement follows Tele Atlas'
recent delivery of digital maps covering Central and
Eastern Europe and South Africa, and is in response to
increased demand from global customers for consistently
detailed and highly accurate maps of all major countries
around the world.

    "Our growing base of customers and partners, among
them Nokia, TomTom and Mio, want to deliver a comprehensive
set of services to their wireless and navigation system
users, wherever they are," said Tele Atlas Vice
President of Product Marketing Basak Ozer. "Tele Atlas
now delivers the most digital maps with the highest level of
detail required to build and deliver fully functional, high
performance navigation and local search solutions." 

    About Tele Atlas

    Tele Atlas delivers the digital maps and dynamic
content that power some of the world's most essential
navigation and location-based services. The information is
the foundation for a wide range of personal and in-car
navigation systems and mobile and Internet map applications
that help users find the people, places, products and
services they need, wherever they are. We also work with
business partners who trust our digital map data to deliver
critical applications for emergency, business, fleet and
infrastructure services. Founded in 1984, the company
provides maps covering 64 countries around the world. Tele
Atlas has approximately 2,300 full-time staff and contract
cartographers at offices in 20 countries and uses a
sophisticated network of professional drivers, mobile
mapping vans and more than 50,000 data resources to deliver
highly accurate and up-to-date digital maps. Tele Atlas is
listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (TA6) and on
Euronext Amsterdam (TA). For more information, visit
http://www.teleatlas.com .


    For more information, please contact:

     Erin Delaney 
     Tele Atlas North America
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]

     Christine Needles 
     Porter Novelli for Tele Atlas
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]

     Dirk Snauwaert 
     Tele Atlas EMEA
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail] 


SOURCE  Tele Atlas