First Release of NAVTEQ Entry Map Available in Eastern Europe

CHICAGO, Jan. 30 – NAVTEQ, a leading global provider of digital map data for vehicle navigation and location-based solutions, has announced a broader set of data to complement its navigable NAVTEQ map. This new map, named Entry Map, is focused on providing basic road coverage. Entry Map has been developed for applications in global Geographic Information System (GIS), fleet, and location applications for wireless and internet uses. It has been harmonized to the standard formats commonly used in NAVTEQ maps. Entry Map allows one-stop shopping and integration of map data around the world. Users will be able to visualize their location and plan a route on the road network through applications that use map display, geocoding and reverse geocoding functionality. NAVTEQ’s Entry Map portfolio combined with the existing highly accurate proprietary NAVTEQ Map provides the industry with a unique opportunity to source all their global map needs from one supplier. Application developers serving the GIS, wireless, and Internet industries are developing a growing range of new concepts and many are seeking global map solutions. These applications may range from map display and ‘find me’ products to more sophisticated solutions such as optimization of delivery routes that can aid fleet owners in boosting efficiencies, controlling costs, improving customer service, and enhancing revenue opportunities. The first release of Entry Map provides data for the following 18 countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Russia (Kaliningrad), Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, and Ukraine. The release includes road geometry on major highways and between cities in Eastern Europe and Turkey. Additional levels of roads including rural and residential roads and select Points of Interest (POIs) for major towns are also included where available. Complete global availability of Entry Map is anticipated for Q2/07. “Entry Map will enable NAVTEQ to address a large number of geographic areas previously under served by the digital map industry,” stated Mary Hardwick, Vice President of Product Management, Europe, Middle East and Africa for NAVTEQ. “Additionally, because Entry Map can be edge matched to NAVTEQ maps, our customers will be able to rapidly develop the seamless global, regional and cross-country solutions users are demanding. The combination of these two digital maps in Europe for example, provides regional road network coverage from Portugal through Russia, and from Norway through Turkey.”