Expansion into Ukraine Demonstrates Commitment to Central and Eastern Europe, Highlights Regional Growth in Consumer Navigation
Gent, Belgium, 17 March 2010 —
Tele Atlas, the world leader in high quality digital maps and dynamic
content, today unveiled expanded coverage of Ukraine, which includes
coverage of the country’s complete major and interconnecting road
networks encompassing more than 250,000 kilometers of roadways. The
release extends the company’s European maps, which cover 44 countries
and more than 10.6 million kilometers, and marks the company’s first
navigable map of the Ukraine.
The new map includes navigable street network
coverage for turn-by-turn and location-based applications and covers
nearly 40 percent of the country’s population. It also features street
level coverage in 46 major cities across the country, including
Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kiev, Lviv and Odessa, as well as all
regional centers. The Ukraine map offers users an enriched navigation
experience with map information and content to find more than 47,000
points of interest (POIs) such as hotels, restaurants, shops, petrol
stations, pharmacies and hospitals, including nearly 30,000 settlement
centers.
“Ukraine remains a fast growing economy with
significant potential in portable navigation, location-based services
(LBS) and fleet navigation solutions, and a market of particular
interest for European companies expanding to the East,” said Yves
Muyssen, Tele Atlas Senior Product Manager. “With the addition of
Ukraine maps and continued investment in expanded coverage across key
countries in the region, we can ensure our partners have a seamless
Pan-European solution to power high-quality navigation and LBS
products.”
Designed to be fully aligned with Tele Atlas’
global map offering and seamlessly integrated within Tele Atlas’
European maps, the new Tele Atlas Ukrainian map is available for Tele
Atlas portable navigation, wireless, Internet, automotive and
enterprise customers worldwide for compilation and deployment. Tele
Atlas will continue to expand its offerings in Central and Eastern
Europe with additional map coverage and content throughout 2010.
About Tele Atlas
Tele Atlas is the licensing business unit of TomTom N.V. (AEX: TOM2),
the world’s leading provider of location and navigation solutions. Tele
Atlas delivers the digital maps and dynamic content that power some of
the world’s most essential navigation, location-based services (LBS)
and enterprises. Through a combination of its own products and
partnerships, Tele Atlas offers digital map coverage of more than 200
countries and territories worldwide. Tele Atlas maps rate highest in
terms of quality and reliability in certified tests. They are updated
daily with the insight of a community of millions of GPS system users
worldwide, who along with the company’s unmatched network of sources
help to track and validate changes in real time. For more information,
visit www.teleatlas.com. Follow Tele Atlas on Twitter at www.twitter.com/TeleAtlas or become a fan at www.facebook.com/TeleAtlas.
Tele Atlas and the Tele Atlas logo are
registered trademarks of Tele Atlas. All other trademarks are property
of their respective owners.
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