July 9, 2002 – Tele Atlas North America, a provider of digital map data, has announced that several major new customers and partners including Telcontar, Sagent and Pharos Science & Applications, Inc. among others, have selected Tele Atlas to provide its superior geocoding data in a wide variety of projects fundamental to the foundation of their businesses.
With the company’s most recent repositioning of U.S. street map data, not only are Tele Atlas North America’s partners and customers receiving superior positionally accurate data, but customers have also gained superior geocoding accuracy, a critical function of map databases. Amplified competition in industries such as LBS and GIS have companies placing increased importance on highly superior geocoding. Tele Atlas North America’s geocoding products and services provide the highest quality match rate and the most highly accurate geocoding possible.
Among the many accounts Tele Atlas North America has secured recently are:
Telcontar: Telcontar is the provider of the premier software platform for location-based services. Telcontar’s clients use its Drill Down Server to offer their own customers such services as driving directions, real-time traffic information, and maps.
Sagent: Sagent is a leading provider of a complete software platform for business intelligence, enabling companies to reduce operational costs, increase profitability and improve customer relationships.
Pharos Science & Applications, Inc.: Pharos develops advanced navigation, positioning and Telematics solutions for consumers and commercial customers on the go. The company’s first navigation product for Pocket PC’s earned the esteemed “Product of the Congress” award at the 1999 World Intelligent Transportation Systems Congress in Toronto, quickly establishing Pharos as the leading creator of complete, yet affordable navigation solutions for the personal computing market.
Teletrac: Teletrac has been at the forefront of providing comprehensive location and communication solutions to improve fleet productivity. Teletrac currently has intelligent wireless networks in major metropolitan areas across the U.S., serving approximately 70,000 vehicles.
LandInfo — Land Info International provides digital geospatial information of the world, including satellite imagery, 3D models, and topographic maps. Land Info offers direct access to the world’s largest database of digital topographic and geospatial products.
DriverTech — DriverTech was formed in 1995 to develop the next generation of fleet management hardware and software. That effort culminated in the DT-2000 Wireless IP-based Fleet Management System, introduced in April of 2001. DriverTech provides fleet management hardware and software that is supportable under the same IS support structure that other networks utilize.
The Tele Atlas geocoding process automatically corrects and standardizes addresses, eliminating the need to pass files through address standardization or other preprocessing. With Tele Atlas data, users can successfully geocode over 99% of postally deliverable addresses in the U.S.
