Denver, Colo. (July 26, 2006): Intermap Technologies Corp. (TSX: IMP, AIM: IMAP) today announced that its Intermap Federal Services subsidiary has been awarded a US$3.2 million contract to provide imagery and elevation data from the company's NEXTMap USA geospatial datasets. Included in the license for 773,889 square kilometers of data across the United States is the first purchase of a data license for the entire state of California. Intermap will supply the California data immediately and will deliver other areas over the next few quarters as they are collected. Included in the deliverables are high-accuracy digital surface models, digital terrain models and high-resolution orthorectified radar imagery.
"This is an important sale for the company as it confirms the market's need to have immediate access to accurate digital elevation data for large areas, " commented Brian Bullock, president and CEO of Intermap Technologies. "To date, this sale brings the total license revenue for NEXTMap USA data to approximately US$6 million."
Intermap is continuing to proactively re-map entire countries throughout the world and has delivered data to numerous buyers including county governments, municipalities and commercial customers. Currently, the company has data available off-the-shelf for 505 counties in the U.S., all of Great Britain, and numerous areas in Southeast Asia. Germany is the next whole country that Intermap will add to the NEXTMap inventory.
About Intermap Technologies
Intermap enables customers to facilitate better decision-making and create applications for numerous commercial, governmental, military, and consumer products through the purchase of high quality and affordable elevation datasets. The company is proactively remapping entire countries and building unprecedented national databases, called NEXTMap, consisting of highly accurate digital topographic maps that include elevation data.
Demand for NEXTMap data is growing as new commercial applications are emerging, including geographical information systems (GIS), engineering planning, transportation, automotive, navigation, flood, irrigation, environmental management and planning, telecommunications/wireless network planning, aviation, simulation, and 3D visualization. Internet applications include virtual tours, topographic maps and computer games. Datasets are also used to add interactive intelligence to airborne and satellite imagery.
Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Intermap employs more than 250 people worldwide, with offices in Calgary, Ottawa, Munich, and Jakarta. For more information, visit www.intermap.com.
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