18 May 2009 - For immediate release

Europa Technologies are pleased to announce that their GSM World Coverage Map 2009 has been selected by ESRI for inclusion in Map Book #24. Published annually since 1984, the ESRI Map Book is the only publication dedicated to acknowledging the important and innovative accomplishments of GIS users around the world.

The GSM World Coverage Map 2009 is produced by Europa Technologies for the GSM Association, and illustrates the extent 2G and 3G coverage over the dominant GSM mobile telecoms standard.

The Europa Technologies map in Map Book #24 can be viewed online at:
ESRI Map Book #24

The GSM World Coverage Map 2009 map can be downloaded in PDF format from:
www.coveragemaps.com

Warren Vick, Founder and Executive Director of Europa Technologies commented, "As an ESRI International Business Partner, we are very proud to have one of our mobile coverage maps selected by ESRI for this distinguished publication."

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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