Maptuit Opens New Office In Singapore.Business Editors BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 5, 2001 Maptuit Corporation Asian Presence to Provide New Base of Operations Noun 1. base of operations - installation from which a military force initiates operations; "the attack wiped out our forward bases" base air base, air station - a base for military aircraft army base - a large base of operations for an army for Expansion into the Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region. Maptuit Corporation, a supplier of eGeo services, today announced its expansion into Asia with the opening of a new office in Singapore. eGeo services - electronic services built around a model of the road network - enable the creation of both consumer and business applications. Using a database of the global road network, Maptuit is able to look up addresses, create maps, search for points of interest and calculate the most efficient route between two points. Maptuit's model of the road network features real-time traffic reporting A traffic report is an element of a radio program or TV news broadcast that informs listeners about general traffic conditions, locations and severity of traffic accidents, road construction detours/slowdowns, etc., on roadways within the broadcast area. and the intelligence to route around traffic obstacles. Using these services, existing applications can be made location-aware, and new applications - including "concierge" services that tell you where you are, what's near you and how to get there - are possible. "Countries in South Asia This article is about the geopolitical region in Asia. For geophysical treatments, see Indian subcontinent. South Asia, also known as Southern Asia - Singapore in particular - are forward-looking early-adopters of new technology. Singapore is an important hub for Maptuit as it represents our commitment to directly serve the Asia-Pacific market," said Jeff Papows, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Maptuit Corporation. "Both consumers and businesses will benefit from our Location-based and eLogistics services to save time and money," he added. The new office will be headed by Lai Khai Khuen, Director of Business Development, Asia Pacific. Mr. Lai has extensive experience in business development, sales and marketing, as well as trading in the Asian markets, most recently serving as Director of Sales and Marketing with GrowAsia.com. Maptuit's Singapore operations, led by Mr. Lai, will be responsible for establishing key partnerships and new business opportunities in the Asia-Pacific markets. Building upon its core eGeo services, Maptuit's optimization technology enables real-time calculation of the optimal sequence a delivery vehicle would need for visiting multiple destinations, given a set of constraints. Companies can use Maptuit services to construct or augment fleet management and dispatch applications capable of responding to changing traffic conditions. Maptuit's services can also be used to partition A reserved part of disk or memory that is set aside for some purpose. On a PC, new hard disks must be partitioned before they can be formatted for the operating system, and the Fdisk utility is used for this task. a large number of jobs across a set of vehicles, or augment a number of commercial AVL-based (automated vehicle locator) fleet tracking systems with knowledge of the road network. Maptuit's eGeo services are currently deployed in 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. and in selected countries in Western Europe Western Europe The countries of western Europe, especially those that are allied with the United States and Canada in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (established 1949 and usually known as NATO). . Maptuit continues to work with a number of partners, including Compaq, as part of their global deployment of location-based and eGeo services. Maptuit is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts Burlington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 22,876 at the 2000 census. History Burlington was first settled in 1641 and was officially incorporated on February 28, 1799. , with offices in Denver, Colorado and Toronto, Ontario. About Maptuit Maptuit Corporation is a leading supplier of eGeo services - electronic services related to the road network. Built upon an increasingly global database of the street network, Maptuit provides address matching, route generation, step-by-step directions, map rendering, and true-cost proximity searching Proximity search can mean:
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