17 August 2009 - For immediate release

World map data specialists, Europa Technologies, has today released an update of its core range of global digital map products. Version 2009.2 of Global Discovery, Global Insight Plus and Global Insight, is now available with immediate shipping.

Existing clients upgrading to version 2009.2 and new clients will benefit from the following new and improved features:

• New global Points of Interest (POI) layer
• New National Parks layer
• Fully redrawn, high accuracy coastlines for Caribbean islands
• New and updated 1st level administrative divisions
• Updated road networks for several countries
• Cartographic styling improvements
• Thousands of minor updates and improvements

Warren Vick, Executive Director of Europa Technologies commented, "With this quarterly release incorporating two new map feature layers, we continue to bring added value to our customers with international interests. Our continued commitment to this product range affirms us as a global leader in the market."

Version 2009.2 is available directly from Europa Technologies or through its global partner network.

About Europa Technologies

Europa Technologies is a specialist manufacturer of digital world map data for a wide variety of market sectors and applications. Our products allow organisations with international interests to better understand their customers, assets and markets, in a geographic context, to gain a competitive or strategic advantage. Topographic and satellite imagery products from Europa Technologies are used by many Fortune Global 500 companies and several missions of the United Nations. Europa Technologies is also the official supplier of mobile network coverage maps to the GSM Association, the global trade organisation for the leading mobile telecommunications standard. The company has global licence agreements with a number of leading Internet-based service providers including Google Earth/Maps (USA), Multimap (UK), ViaMichelin (France) and Maps24 (Germany). Through deployment via Google alone, our world data products are used by over 400 million people, approximately 1 in 4 of Internet users world-wide and our mobile coverage maps are accessed by over 20 million unique users, each year.

For further information, please visit www.europa.uk.com

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