Press Release

Webraska introduces its fastest ever SmartZone Geospatial Platform (SGP) for the most demanding Internet and mobile mapping, routing, geocoding and local search requirements

SGP 4 hits 80 address geocoding transactions and 40 dynamic maps per second per CPU on Pentium IV commodity PC

Paris, France - January 31, 2006

Webraska, a worldwide provider of mobile GPS navigation solutions and high-end geospatial software platforms for wireless carriers and LBS, Fleet Management and Internet portals including Sensis, Orange and Vodafone, is pleased to announce the record-breaking performance ratings of its latest SmartZone Geospatial Platform, SGP version 4.

In recent tests conducted by one of Webraska's customers on a RedHat 4, Pentium IV 3.0GHz 2Gb RAM platform, with 10 simultaneous users, Webraska's SGP achieved unmatched results. Average performance demonstrated during those tests were:

• 40 dynamic GIF maps/second/CPU
• 80 address geocodings and 25 freeform address geocodings/second/CPU
• 60 long routes/second/CPU

The platform integrated NAVTEQ's North American datasets.

Along with top performance, reliability, redundancy and scalability, SGP4 highlights include:

• Geocoding and reverse geocoding with multi-language, international syntactic parsing, with newly optimised algorithms for the US and European markets, freeform address entry, quality of service factoring, alphabetical "buckets" sorting, spatial indexing, partial parsing, and phonetization.
• Routing supporting continent-wide address to address calculations, providing route instructions, turn-by-turn manoeuvres, route geometry extraction, as well as ranking by actual travel time.
• Map rendering with ultra-fast dynamic text placement automatically supporting multi-line and curve street alignment, satellite image and geometric map overlays, multiple output format rendering, fully customized graphical charts, real-time traffic overlay, and optimisation for mobile devices.
• Vector map data extraction.
• Areas Of Interest (AOI) retrieval around a given location or route; AOI overlap queries; AOI attribute information retrieval.
• Local Searching with Complex Point Of Interest (POI) search, multi-database management, ranking by distance or actual drive time, dataset versioning and full right access control and restriction.
• Real-time traffic integration taking into account actual speed times, with interfaces for multiple sources, route optimisation, event management and dynamic overlay of traffic information on maps.
• Carrier-grade reliability with full reporting tools, billing and administration interfaces.

About Webraska

Webraska is one of the leading providers of mobile GPS navigation solutions and high-end geospatial software platforms for wireless carriers and major Internet service providers worldwide.

Webraska's customers include Orange, Vodafone, Sensis/Telstra, Toyota, Nextel, Intelematics, Raywood, Punch Telematix and Groeneveld.

For more information visit: www.webraska.com

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