"These sales are to organizations that will use the NEXTMap Indonesia dataset for development planning, environmental management and disaster mitigation planning for the region," commented Garth Lawrence, Intermap's senior vice president, business operations. "We are excited to see this valuable data used in a variety of applications that will benefit the citizens of the region which is expected to lead to further sales."
Sales momentum has also been building for sales of California data from NEXTMap USA. The state of California is the first major economy state to be added to the NEXTMap USA database.
In 2005, Intermap has sold data from its NEXTMap archive of several different countries, including England, Wales, Scotland, the USA, and Indonesia. In 2006 Intermap plans to add data from Germany, Italy, Northern Ireland, and updates for Britain and the USA, to the NEXTMap database.
About Intermap
Intermap is digitally remapping entire countries, building unprecedented national databases, called NEXTMap. NEXTMap consists of highly accurate digital elevation data, accurate color images and other derived products. Customers purchase Intermap's high-quality, low-cost data to facilitate better decision-making for numerous commercial, governmental, military and consumer applications.
Demand for NEXTMap data is growing as new commercial applications are emerging such as flood risk, disaster mitigation, 3D visualization, and internet mapping. These new markets supplement growth in mainstream markets like geographical information systems (GIS), engineering planning, transportation, irrigation, environmental management, and telecommunications network planning. Internet applications in the future will include virtual tours, education, location based services, and computer games. The products are also used to add 3D to and improve the accuracy of airborne and satellite images.
Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Intermap employs more than 250 people worldwide, with offices in Calgary, Ottawa, Munich and Jakarta. Intermap is publicly traded on the TSX under the symbol IMP. For more information, visit www.intermap.com.
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