BMW has signed an agreement with the BMW Group to provide digital map data and local search content for the next generation driver information/navigation systems in BMW vehicles in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia.
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California Department of Transportation
The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) maintains a hierarchy of classification for thousands of miles of roads throughout California. In addition to tracking new exits, road changes, and the re-naming of 166,000 miles of surface roads, the agency regularly submits 1,600 California Road System(CRS) maps to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). After careful consideration, Caltrans selected the Tele Atlas®/ONE program to help develop and provide its base map. Once Caltrans completed the task in partnership with Tele Atlas’, the organization began to see the benefits of a common base map that could serve as the data standard for all cities, counties, and transportation departments throughout California – allowing the various agencies to share critical information faster and more efficiently.
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ESRI
When it comes to geographic information systems (GIS) solutions, Redlands, CA-based ESRI, with more than 80 distributors around the world and more than 300,000 customers spread across 200 countries, is the industry’s largest and oldest GIS provider. Now nearly 40 years old and still privately held, ESRI has a simple, yet elegant mission: To build the best GIS software possible, enabling its customers to use geography to truly make a difference in the world.
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Google
Tele Atlas has signed a long term license agreement with Google giving them access to Tele Atlas maps and dynamic content in more than 200 countries around the world. The agreement spans Google’s current and future map-based services and navigation offerings across mobile, online and desktop environments. These include the Google Maps™ and Google Earth™ services and mobile applications such as Google Maps for Mobile™. The agreement also gives Tele Atlas access to edits for its maps from Google’s community of users, whose suggested changes can help the company further increase the quality and richness of Tele Atlas maps.
State of Louisiana Department of Social Services
Louisiana’s Department of Social Services needed geographic content for its new food stamp fraud detection application. Louisiana chose Tele Atlas’ Matchmaker® for StreetMap™ 2000, Matchmaker® SDK Professional and Dynamap®/Dislpay. The new business system has given DSS investigators unprecedented fraud detection capabilities.
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Tele Atlas helps Mio Technology successfully navigate the global marketplace
To effectively train and retain customers, Mio Technology must ensure that its devices are equipped with current, precise, and reliable geographic information. To meet that goal, it is essential for Mio Technology to partner with a geographic content provider dedicated to providing accurate and frequently updated data. Tele Atlas serves as that global resource for Mio Technology, providing geographic data to both the European and North American divisions of the company.
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Orange County Fire Chiefs Association
Large-scale emergencies such as 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina have underscored the need to improve communication throughout the first responder community. Utilizing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to leverage accurate maps of emergency areas and the exact location of emergency assets, incidents, and hazards are an important component. The Orange County Fire Chiefs Association (OCFCA) is one agency that is leading the effort to modernize emergency response systems.
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PSE&G
This is the story of how PSE&G, in partnership with Tele Atlas, balances its need to do mapping with its desire to avoid the land maintenance business. And how PSE&G rallied, division by division, to have its entire organization work off a single, up-to-date landbase. Today, Tele Atlas’ data facilitates a common understanding of geographic location throughout PSE&G’s various divisions, saving them significant time and money.
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State of Connecticut, Department of Public Safety
The Tele Atlas®/ONE program has helped Connecticut to meet the specific mapping, geocoding, and routing needs of each government customer. It provides a single, enterprise-wide data source that enables a seamless data environment across all agencies and programs. The Office of Statewide Emergency Telecommunications (OSET) began using the program to develop a single mapping standard internally, but now the Tele Atlas®/ONE program is used by all government entities throughout Connecticut. The state is leveraging a comprehensive, high quality solution that provides data for 911 mapping applications and emergency management, and is helping OSET to save lives.
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