3 March 2008 - For immediate release

Specialist manufacture of map data, Europa Technologies, has released a new version of its extensive range of digital world map products. The new release (v7.1) which includes Global Discovery, Global Insight & Global Insight Plus, is now available for immediate shipping and is available direct, or via its global reseller network.

Almost every data layer within each product has been enhanced and updated to provide clients with a more accurate and complete view of the world, from pole to pole. Existing clients upgrading to v7.1 and new clients will benefit from the following:

• Support for Kosovo (disputed border)
• Increase to over 820,000 named places
• New layers: seas, gulfs, bays & Arctic/Antarctic Circles
• Updated 1st level administrative regions
• Support for ISO 3166-2 and FIPS 10-4 Admin1 codes
• Increased positional accuracy for many places & airports
• Thousands of minor updates and improvements

Warren Vick, Founder & Executive Director of Europa Technologies said, "We are pleased to be able to release version 7.1 of our product range. Many of our clients rely upon the accuracy and completeness of our world data to make strategic business decisions. These decisions rely on the integrity of our data and help our clients to better understand their business interests, in a geographical context. A frequent release schedule is also a key factor in ensuring we have a range of products that can be relied upon for business intelligence."

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 350 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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