Navigating at the Olympics: Tele Atlas Develops Navigable Road Database for Greece - Partnership with Epsilon GIS Technologies.Business Editors GHENT, Belgium--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 27, 2003 Navigating at the Olympics will be easy with a new digital map that Tele Atlas  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . (FWB (Fixed Wireless Broadband) See fixed wireless. : TA6) and its partner Epsilon GIS are to present in early 2004. The database can be used for a number of advanced applications, for example car and personal navigation (with a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). or an advanced mobile phone). A series of navigation CDs and DVDs for leading hardware platforms Each hardware platform, or CPU family, has a unique machine language. All software presented to the computer for execution must be in the binary coded machine language of that CPU. Following is a list of the major hardware platforms in existence today. See platform. will be published soon. The digital maps also provide the basis for applications like traffic telematics, geographical information systems (GIS), online mapping and location-based services (LBS (Location-Based Services) See mobile positioning. ). The first Tele Atlas MultiNet digital map for Greece will provide superior coverage, including the complete Attiki* region street network with over 4 million inhabitants
The game is based loosely on the concepts from SameGame. as well as all major roads connecting the urban centres. The partnership with Epsilon GIS Technologies ensures that the many current infrastructural and traffic regulation changes in preparation for the Olympics will be incorporated. Also, all relevant venues for the Olympic events and organization will be available in addition to the standard Point of Interest categories. Detailed and up-to-date house number information can be offered from the first product onwards. Olympic experience Tele Atlas has been able to provide digital map data to aid navigation and other activities at the Olympic Games since 1996. At the Atlanta Summer Olympics and Paralympics real time traffic information was processed by Tele Atlas Traffic Workstations to keep users up-to-date on road conditions, route finding, parking and the locations of events. In 2000, for the Sydney summer Olympics, Tele Atlas used data supplied by its partner Sensis to support traffic management, traffic information services See Information Systems. and traffic control. At the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002, Tele Atlas worked with Westwood One to produce CommuterLink TV programming and to provide the Tele Atlas Traffic Check automated TV program, with continuous information on traffic conditions and incidents. Visit www.teleatlas.com for more about Tele Atlas, and www.navshop.com for its products. * Attiki is the administrative region of Greece that includes Athens and the Olympic venues. |
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