Tele Atlas to Power Garmin Navigation Devices

location based services

May 3, 2007 11:06 AM
First Products to Launch in Growing Asia Pacific Region. Tele Atlas today announced it has signed an agreement with Garmin International, Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. Tele Atlas will initially provide the digital maps for the Garmin GVN 52 in Malaysia and Singapore, with further opportunities expected in other emerging markets. "Garmin is dedicated to developing quality products that give customers the best possible experience, and we are proud that Tele Atlas will play an important role in delivering on that promise," said George Fink, president and chief operating officer, Tele Atlas. "With this agreement, seven of the eight top portable navigation companies worldwide now trust Tele Atlas for rich, fresh and accurate map data." "We are looking forward to a rewarding relationship with Tele Atlas that will help Garmin extend its reach in these growing markets," said Dan Bartel, vice president of worldwide sales, Garmin. "Accurate and reliable maps are crucial to navigation, and this agreement allows us to continue offering best-in-class Garmin products." The newly-launched GVN 52 is a "black-box" GPS navigation system that features Garmin's robust GPS hardware and award-winning user interface and is designed to be integrated with mobile audio/video entertainment systems. Users may look up and route directly to a specific address or point of interest such as a restaurant, hotel, store, gas station or bank and receive turn-by-turn, voice prompted directions that include street names. Other features that can be built into Garmin's GVN 52 include touch screen communication, wireless remote, dead reckoning and wireless information such as traffic alerts.