Bowne Distinct Enlists the NavTech Database; "Concern for Accuracy and Completeness" Led the Developer to License the NavTech Database for its Commercial Fleet Routing and Scheduling Applications.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 1996--Navigation Technologies (NavTech) Corp. today announced it has signed a contract that will make its NavTech Database the premier map database for an advanced set of routing and scheduling applications provided by Bowne Distinct to commercial fleet operators. The Bowne Distinct suite of software products, sold under the name of RouteSmart Technologies, includes state-of-the-art routing and scheduling applications designed to make it easier for drivers of commercial vehicles to get around faster and more efficiently. The RouteSmart products reside on an IBM PC compatible IBM PC compatible computers are those generally similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT. Such computers used to be referred to as PC clones, or IBM clones since they almost exactly duplicated all the significant features of the PC, XT, or AT internal design, at an organization's dispatch A dispatch or dispatches can refer to:
"NavTech was immediately attracted to Bowne Distinct because of their focus on the waste management and utility industries, and due to the sophistication so·phis·ti·cate v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates v.tr. 1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly. 2. of their software solution," said Amy Love, NavTech vice president of sales and marketing for North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . "NavTech and Bowne Distinct will work closely on serving these two markets with a high quality product for fleet managers." "We recognized that NavTech has a superior map database as measured by completeness and accuracy of street networks, which is, of course, key to routing and scheduling," said RouteSmart Vice President Laurence Levy. "We offer point-to-point and neighborhood routing fleet management products and so we required an extremely high level of detail." Levy also noted that "the need to develop sophisticated routing applications that provide accurate driving directions made the choice of selecting the NavTech Database as our underlying street network database easy." A highly accurate and comprehensive navigable database (Data West Research Agency definition: see GIS glossary.) The database designed and prepared for Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems to support such systems for "smart cars" and "smart highways. , NavTech is essential for the successful calculation of point-to-point routing. The database contains detailed information about roadways including one-ways, turn restrictions, address ranges, road signage, bridge over/underpass information and thousands of points of interest. Applications using the NavTech Database include sophisticated fleet management systems as well as a range of consumer in-vehicle and Internet navigation products. NavTech's local field network of more than 40 offices nationwide continuously validates and updates the database allowing NavTech to release new databases four times per year. RouteSmart Technologies is a subsidiary of Sidney B. Bowne & Son, a 100-year-old civil engineer firm and leader in Geographic Information Systems geographic information system (GIS) Computerized system that relates and displays data collected from a geographic entity in the form of a map. The ability of GIS to overlay existing data with new information and display it in colour on a computer screen is used primarily to (GIS (1) (Geographic Information System) An information system that deals with spatial information. Often called "mapping software," it links attributes and characteristics of an area to its geographic location. ), and Distinct Management Consultants, leaders in routing and scheduling solutions. RouteSmart serves clients worldwide, focusing on municipalities, utilities, and businesses with stringent automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. routing demands. RouteSmart executive offices are located in Mineola, N.Y. and Columbia, Md. Founded in 1985, Navigation Technologies is the premier developer and provider of superior quality, continuously updated street map databases. With headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. and Sulzbach, Germany, NavTech employs over 800 employees worldwide. The NavTech Database is the industry's choice for in-vehicle navigation systems A GPS-based electronic system in a car or truck that provides a real time map of the vehicle's current location as well as step-by-step directions to a programmed destination. See GPS and vehicle tracking. as well as other map based fleet management, Internet, personal computer, and Geographic Information System (GIS) applications. CONTACT: Navigation Technologies Corp., Sunnyvale Mark Granovsky, 408/737-3200 markgran@navtech.com |
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