Tele Atlas Enhances Digital Maps with GlobeXplorer Aerial and Satellite Images

New Agreement Gives Customers Single Source of High Resolution Images that Bring Personal Navigation Device and Location Based Applications to Life

CARLSBAD, Calif., Nov. 16 -- Tele Atlas Partner Conference -- Tele Atlas (FSE: TA6, EUNV: TA), a leading global provider of digital maps and dynamic content for navigation and location based solutions, and GlobeXplorer(R), provider of the world's largest commercial library of aerial photos, satellite imagery and geographic maps, today announced a reseller agreement that enables Tele Atlas partners and customers to enhance the richness of their digital map-based applications by incorporating high- resolution aerial and satellite imagery into their solutions.

Under the agreement, Tele Atlas will provide a unique single-source global data solution through which its partners and customers can use GlobeXplorer's ImageBuilder(TM) and ImageConnect(TM) worldwide imagery products to seamlessly build custom aerial, satellite and map viewing features into applications. Combined with Tele Atlas' highly accurate digital map data and dynamic content, applications and devices using GlobeXplorer's online images will be able to generate visually rich and accurate maps.

"Consumers increasingly want to see a realistic representation of the world in their in-car and personal navigation, Internet and mobile map-based applications," said Basak Ozer, vice president of global product marketing, Tele Atlas. "By working with GlobeXplorer, we're conveniently offering our global partners maps that provide the visual and display elements that enrich the overall navigation experience for consumers, designed to help make navigation and local search easier and further a part of their 'everyday' activities."

"Tele Atlas continues to demonstrate its commitment to its partners and customers with superior digital map data and content that answers all their geographic content requirements," said Paul Smith, chief operating officer, GlobeXplorer. "We're pleased to work with Tele Atlas on a global scale to provide enhanced visualization features and tools that ease digital map application development and generate interactive, informative and interesting navigation and LBS applications."