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Tele Atlas Launches New e-Commerce Website
GHENT, Belgium, March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Tele Atlas, provider of up-to-date, accurate and comprehensive maps for brands such as TomTom, Mio and Blaupunkt, announces the launch of a new e-commerce website: navigation.teleatlas.com (http://navigation.teleatlas.com/language). Visitors to the site can purchase map updates for a range of navigation devices, report map changes and enter the draw for a trip to Rome. Webshop Visitors navigate the webshop with ease, finding the shortest route to the right updated map for their vehicle or navigation device. Updated Maps are also available for mobile phones and PDA's. Experiences Every year, Tele Atlas mobile mapping vans cover millions of kilometres throughout Europe, registering changes to the road network. Visitors can now take a look for themselves, discovering the likes of Tower Bridge in London or Potsdamer Platz in Berlin through the eye of the mobile camera. Inside information Thanks to the intelligent webtool, "Map Insight", users can also report changes to their neighbourhood map themselves. The tool allows users to pinpoint changes and submit a report for verification by Tele Atlas. Road Wise Coinciding with the launch, an interactive competition is offering visitors the chance to win one of 4 trips to Rome. 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 (LBS). 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. The company also works with business partners who trust its digital map data to deliver critical applications for emergency, business, fleet, and infrastructure services. Through a combination of its own products and partnerships, Tele Atlas offers digital map coverage of more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. The company was founded in 1984 and today has approximately 2,400 full-time staff and contract cartographers at offices in 24 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.
