"We are pleased to announce a distribution agreement with Tele Atlas," said Alex Miller, President, ESRI Canada. "Our agreement with Tele Atlas Canada will allow ESRI Canada to provide customers with another high quality source of spatial data that can be used in conjunction with the ArcGIS family of products."

Tele Atlas delivers very rich and highly accurate datasets that power the world's most essential geographic solutions. The content for Tele Atlas' data products gathered from over 50,000 global sources such as satellite and aerial imagery, public data sources, government sources, mobile mapping vans, utilities, fleet, and postal drivers.

"Tele Atlas is very pleased to strengthen our relationship with ESRI Canada," said John Cassidy, GIS Market Director, Tele Atlas. "Users across Canada can now easily combine our outstanding Canadian data with ESRI's powerful, scalable tools to help plan and manage their government agencies, fleets, and businesses more efficiently and cost-effectively."

About Tele Atlas:
Tele Atlas delivers the digital maps and dynamic content that power some of the world's most essential navigation and location-based services. The information is the foundation for a wide range of personal and in-car navigation systems and mobile and Internet map applications that help users find the people, places, products, and services they need, wherever they are. The company also works with business partners who trust its digital map data to deliver critical applications for emergency, business, fleet, and infrastructure services. Founded in 1984, the company provides maps covering 64 countries around the world. Tele Atlas has approximately 2,400 full-time staff and contract cartographers at offices in 24 countries and uses a sophisticated network of professional drivers, mobile mapping vans, and more than 50,000 data resources to deliver highly accurate and up-to-date digital maps. Tele Atlas is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (TA6) and on Euronext Amsterdam (TA). For more information, visit http://www.teleatlas.com/.

About ESRI Canada:
Established in 1984, ESRI Canada is a Canadian owned company specializing in geographic information systems (GIS) solutions. We distribute the world's leading GIS software solutions from ESRI Inc., Miner and Miner, and Azteca. In order to provide organizations with complete industry-specific solutions we have established an extensive business partner program that includes more than 125 Canadian organizations. ESRI Canada also provides professional services including consulting, training, technical support, and enterprise GIS implementation. We are leaders in providing world-class enterprise GIS solutions for many industries including local government, utilities, public safety and defence, business demographics, education, natural resources, and transportation. ESRI Canada has thirteen regional offices across the country, with headquarters in Toronto, Ontario. For more information, please visit http://www.esricanada.com/ or call 1-800-447-9778.

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ESRI Canada
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