Interchain enabled Teleatlas in New Orleans to Assist in Post-Hurricane Katrina Redevelopment

December 14, 2007

Tele Atlas, a leading global provider of digital maps solutions, today announced a team of employees will be deployed in New Orleans between December 13 and 18 to test a location-based emergency management and disaster assistance solution prototype developed jointly by Interchain Solution, a leadin provider for Telematics solutions and Products and Tele Atlas. The team’s project will be used to collect information on the status of Hurricane Katrina redevelopment efforts to be used in the ongoing Dartmouth College Gentilly Project.

The team from Interchain has invested time and expertise over the past year to prove that mobile phones and similar devices equipped with cameras and GPS functions can help coordinate relief actions after a significant disaster or public emergency. The application is designed to serve as an easy-to-deploy and easy-to-manage solution that leverages cell phone, GPS and web technologies to collect curtail data that could help in the Post-Hurricane Katrina Redevelopment.

Members of the TeleAtlas team will implement the LBS solution in New Orleans using the application, this week working in collaboration with Dr. Quintus Jett, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Digital Strategies atthe Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and his students from Dartmouth College, as well as residents of New Orleans. Together, the group will gather map data for the College’s Gentilly Project, which is assisting Hurricane Katrina redevelopment efforts by assessing the current state of all dwellings in designated neighborhoods by collecting information on their structural status, such as whether they are being rebuilt, are abandoned or are in need of repair. The data will be used by Dr. Jett in his efforts to disseminate information to residents, business owners, nonprofits and others to enhance resource allocation for rebuilding and to accelerate the recovery of neighborhoods.

About Tele Atlas
Tele Atlas delivers the digital maps and dynamic content that power some of the world’s most essential navigation and location-based services (LBS).The information is the foundation for a wide range of personal and in-car navigation systems and mobile and Internet map applications that help users find the people, places, products, and services they need, wherever they are. For more information, visit www.teleatlas.com.

About Interchain
Interchain was founded in 2006 as an organization primarily focused toward providing Location Based Services to the Consumer as well as Enterprise clientele. Interchain has in-house design, development and manufacturing infrastructure in Bangalore and marketing presence in US, Europe and in the Middle East for its Personal Navigation and Fleet Tracking solutions. For more information, visit www.interchainsol.com.