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ESRI and Tele Atlas Announce Availability of Europe Map Data for ArcPad

ArcPad Bundled with Latest Tele Atlas North American and Europe Data Saves Time, Eliminates Errors, and Increases Accuracy

Redlands, California— May 28, 2009 —ESRI and Tele Atlas, a leading global provider of digital maps and dynamic content for navigation and location-based solutions, announce the addition of Europe data to the ArcPad 8 StreetMap extension. ArcPad now includes both North American and pan-European data that can be accessed by users at no additional cost.

The ArcPad StreetMap extension includes ESRI StreetMap Premium data derived from the latest high-quality digital maps from Tele Atlas for use in ArcPad on a variety of mobile devices. Users can leverage ArcPad and the StreetMap extension to enable display, address geocoding, reverse geocoding, and routing. This extension supports Smart Data Compression (SDC) format.

"ArcPad brings GIS [geographic information system] capabilities into the field, providing easy and efficient capture, editing, analysis, and display," said Jian Lange, ArcPad product manager. "With the latest release, we are able to deliver comprehensive Tele Atlas data for 24 countries across Europe in addition to the North American offering, which, combined with ArcPad, delivers a compelling offering for government, utility, environmental, and public safety agencies for whom mobile GIS is an essential element of everyday work."

Todd Schmitt, Tele Atlas enterprise markets manager, said, "ArcPad provides an extensive set of tools for mobile GIS applications, and Tele Atlas provides the comprehensive digital map data and geographic content for Europe and North America. We are proud to team with ESRI to help meet the needs of ArcPad users around the world who require accurate, high-quality maps to power their applications and services."

With ArcPad, you can perform reliable field data collection, improve the productivity and accuracy of your GIS information, and share enterprise data with field staff for rapid decision making.

For more information on ArcPad, visit www.esri.com/arcpad.

To learn more about Tele Atlas' leading global digital map products, visit www.teleatlas.com.

About Tele Atlas
Tele Atlas delivers the digital maps and dynamic content that power many of the world's most essential navigation and location-based services (LBS). Through a combination of its own products and partnerships, Tele Atlas offers map coverage of more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. The company was founded in 1984 and has offices in 27 countries around the world. Today, Tele Atlas products are developed with the insight of a community of millions of digital map users worldwide who are adding to the company's unmatched network of sources to track and validate changes in real time and deliver the best digital maps and dynamic content. For more information, visit www.teleatlas.com. Tele Atlas is a subsidiary of TomTom N.V.

About ESRI


Since 1969, ESRI has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The market leader in GIS, ESRI software is used in more than 300,000 organizations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities. ESRI applications, running on more than one million desktops and thousands of Web and enterprise servers, provide the backbone for the world's mapping and spatial analysis. ESRI is the only vendor that provides complete technical solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms. Visit us at http://www.esri.com.



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