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The new maps are immediately available with additional content such as points ofinterest (POIs) to all Tele Atlas personal navigation, wireless, Internet,automotive and enterprise customers worldwide. Tele Atlas` map of Chileencompasses 155,000 kilometers of roadways, covering approximately 95 percent ofthe population and more than 110 cities with complete street network coverage,including Antofagasta, Puente Alto, Santiago de Chile, Valparaíso and Viña delMar, as well as 77,000 POIs. The company`s digital maps for Uruguay, the first ever delivered, cover 41percent of the population across approximately 8,000 kilometers. Offered withmaps for neighboring Argentina to enable seamless product development, maps ofUruguay cover the major road network of the country`s coast, from the border ofArgentina to Punta del Este, and enable Tele Atlas partners to launch productsthat feature the most heavily traveled regions of the country, including streetlevel coverage for the key holiday areas of Madonado, Montevideo and Punta delEsta. Additionally, Tele Atlas released expanded maps of Argentina with more than193,000 kilometers of navigable roads, including coverage of the country`s majorroad network and street level coverage in 70 cities across the country,including Buenos Aires, Cordoba, La Plata and Rosario. The Argentina maps nowcover 46 percent of the population and offer more than 13,000 points ofinterest.

The latest Brazil maps now encompass more than 980,000 kilometers, withstreet-level coverage for approximately 70 percent of the population. Coverageacross 1,300 municipalities includes all of the Brazil`s cities with populationsof more than two million such as the metropolitan areas of Sao Paulo, Rio deJaneiro, Belo Horizonte, Brasilia, Salvador, Goiania, Recife and Fortaleza. "With the increasing interest in navigation technologies and LBS across LatinAmerica, we are pleased to strengthen Tele Atlas` position in the region and todeliver new and expanding high-quality maps," said James O`Gorman, Tele AtlasDirector of Latin America Data Sourcing. "Our focus for the region is onensuring that our customers have high-quality digital maps and content todevelop successful navigation and location-based solutions and applicationsacross the region." Tele Atlas currently offers maps covering 88 countries around the world,including fully navigable maps of Mexico. To hear from O`Gorman on the company`s offerings in Latin America and commitmentto the region, download a new episode of the Tele Atlas Digital Mapping PodcastSeries titled, "Mapping Latin America to Power GPS Devices and LBS Growth,"available at About Tele AtlasTele Atlas delivers the digital maps and dynamic content that power many of theworld`s most essential navigation and location-based services (LBS).

Through acombination of its own products and partnerships, Tele Atlas offers map coverageof more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. The company was founded in1984 and has offices in 24 countries around the world. Today, Tele Atlasproducts are developed with the insight of a community of millions of digitalmap users worldwide, who are adding to the company`s unmatched network ofsources to track and validate changes in real time, and deliver the best digitalmaps and dynamic content. For more information, visit TeleAtlas is a subsidiary of TomTom N.V. Tele AtlasErin Delaney+1 617 721 orFor IR and Financial PressTomTom NVRichard Piekaar+31 (0)20 7 575 Copyright Business Wire 2009.

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