Maporama offers digital street maps of Taiwan

PARIS -- Maporama, a French company providing location-centric applications, now has detailed street level maps of cities in Taiwan, covering more than 4,500 miles of digitally mapped roads, including Taiwan's capital city, Taipei, as well as T'aoyuan and Chun. In addition to its exclusive coverage of Hong Kong and Singapore, Maporama also becomes the only global provider of location-centric applications to offer detailed street-level maps of cities of Taiwan.

All the new data is totally integrated with the Maporama Unified Database and is accessible from all Maporama’s products, in particular the company’s suite of products Maporama Enterprise Solutions and its development tools Maporama Web Services and Maporama Application Programming Interface Library (MAPIL).

“Maporama continues to roll out its geographic coverage to cities across all continents," said Laurent Vermot-Gauchy, Maporama’s CEO. "Thanks to valuable partnerships in with the best local map data providers everywhere in the world, Maporama not only maintains but continuously increases its competitive advantage and offers high-quality data for the world’s most crucial markets in Europe, Asia, North and South America, and Africa.”

635,000 cities

Vermot-Gauchy said Maporama’s exclusive technical architecture allows for fast integration and aggregation of cartographic data while guaranteeing the best performance of its products and having virtually no limitation as to the volume of data contained in the Maporama Unified Database. Maporama localizes over 635,000 cities in all countries in the world and offers detailed street level maps of several dozens of thousands of cities in over 45 countries across all continents, remaining the only player on its market capable of pinpointing any street address on a territory corresponding to a total population of more than one billion consumers.

“Able to accompany its customers in their international operations, Maporama thereby becomes the best choice for any company operating in Asia, one of today’s most strategic markets for companies in the retail and services industry as well as for LBS (Location-Based Services),” Vermot-Gauchy said. 

This week, Maporama and Danem, a reseller of mobile software, announced a partnership to develop and market new generation mobile applications for companies managing mobile personnel in the retail and services industries.

These products will be used by companies to increase the efficiency of mobile personnel, for example sales force, technicians, maintenance or delivery teams. Maporama's location-centric technology means that mobile personnel have access to detailed street level maps as well as turn-by-turn itineraries in order to easily localise their destination addresses. Maporama and Danem thereby accelerate the return on investment by reducing companies' operational costs related to mobility, since customers using these new products will save substantial resources in terms of travel time and fuel expenses.

With the multi-platform compatibility, the products developed by Maporama and Danem can accompany mobile personnel when out in the field. With Maporama's maps and itineraries integrated within Danem's applications, salespeople can travel more efficiently, deliveries can be made following the best routes and itineraries to their destinations, and maintenance teams are able to arrive at their destinations more quickly. All location-centric functions integrated within the products developed by Maporama and Danem use the cartographic database online, representing detailed street level maps of cities with total population of over one billion consumers across the world.

"Maporama's products are totally complementary to Danem's applications. The synergy between our respective areas of knowledge allows us to create new mobile productivity software applications, a pertinent response to companies' urgent need for reduced operational costs through intelligent use of the latest technologies," said Michel Sasportas, CEO of Danem.

Founded in 1996, Danem is a leading supplier of sales forces automatisation systems. The company offers tailor-made and turn-key software solutions on mobile platforms such as hand-held computers, note books, tablet PC's and PDA. The company counts 150 customers including Microsoft France, Whirpool France, Philips France, TPS, Nestlé Clinical Nutrition, Johnson & Johnson France.

Danem has 30 employees in France and an office in Canada.