Tele Atlas Integrates 12 Million Points of Interest From infoUSA's Business Database Into Its New Turn-By-Turn Digital Map Product

MENLO PARK, Calif.--Nov. 13, 2002-- Tele Atlas North America, Inc., a world leader in digital mapping and a premier provider of digital map databases and real-time traffic information, and infoUSA, , the leading provider of proprietary business and consumer databases and sales and marketing solutions, today announced a strategic alliance that will incorporate 12 million points of interest (POIs) from infoUSA into the Tele Atlas turn-by-turn map database product. This alliance joins the most extensive POI database available with the most powerful, turn-by-turn map database for North America.

"With the addition of infoUSA's POI data, our navigational database product gains unsurpassed depth, breadth and accuracy of points of interest," said Robert Miller, senior vice president of marketing and sales for Tele Atlas. "We partnered with infoUSA because it has the highest quality POI data available."

The resulting turn-by-turn database enriched with the most recent and dynamic POI contents will be available to power the most robust applications and services within the Navigation, Telematics and Location Based Services markets. The Tele Atlas comprehensive POI database can be tailored to offer any specific POI categories to meet any customer needs. Both urban and rural POIs are included in the database product.

Navigation and Telematics devices equipped with Tele Atlas powered map databases can locate hotels, restaurants, gas stations, ATMs and a myriad of other businesses quickly and easily from their devices. For fleet and logistics operations that must deliver goods or people on schedule, this feature can speed the delivery process, improving both productivity and customer satisfaction.

"Our relationship with Tele Atlas is an excellent alliance for infoUSA in the growing telematics and electronic mapping market," said Vinod Gupta, chairman and CEO, infoUSA. "infoUSA shares Tele Atlas' commitment to providing its customers and consumers with the highest-quality database solutions."

About Tele Atlas North America

Tele Atlas North America, Inc., headquartered in Menlo Park, CA, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tele Atlas NV, the world leader in digital mapping. Tele Atlas had its beginnings in 1983 with a vision to provide geographic information in digital form. Today, the company enables its customers' success through unsurpassed leadership in delivering both high-quality digital maps and real-time traffic information for business and consumer applications. The company focuses on providing content to key market sectors including Telematics/Automotive Navigation, Location Based Services (LBS), and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). For more information on Tele Atlas products and services, please visit www.na.teleatlas.com.

About infoUSA

infoUSA (www.infoUSA.com), founded in 1972, is the leading provider of business and consumer information products, database marketing services, data processing services and sales and marketing solutions. Content is the essential ingredient in every marketing program, and infoUSA has the most comprehensive data in the industry, and is the only company to own a proprietary database of 250 million consumers and 14 million businesses under one roof. The infoUSA database powers the directory services of the top Internet traffic-generating sites, including Yahoo! and America Online . Nearly 4 million customers use infoUSA's products and services to find new customers, grow sales, and for other direct marketing, telemarketing, customer analysis and credit reference purposes. infoUSA headquarters are located at 5711 S. 86th Circle, Omaha, NE, and can be contacted at 402/593-4500.