AtlasCT Launches Award-winning Relive! Social Photo Sharing And Mapping Application

AtlasCT, a developer and provider of worldwide mapping solutions both for the Internet and mobile marketplace, is announcing the commercial availability of reLive! for mobile operators, web portals and social networks.

ReLive! is a social photo sharing and mapping application which enables users to take photos with their mobile phones and then easily tag the photos to their precise location on a map. Users can also add notes, creating a travelogue map which tracks their journey. ReLive! enables users to “relive” their trip through an easy-to-access web interface, and to invite friends and family members to experience their journey with them.

To experience reLive! for yourself, click here: relive.atlasct.com (Select a trip and click on the ‘play’ button to start.)

At the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, AtlasCT won the “Social Networking Application” category for Europe in the NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge, for the reLive! social photo sharing and mapping application, which was selected from among more than 340 total submissions. Following great interest for reLive! at 3GSM, AtlasCT is making the application commercially available to mobile operators, web portals and social networks.

AtlasCT is a pioneer in the development of map-based web and mobile applications, and as such, partners with leading web portals and mobile handset manufacturers and mobile operators.

The technological advantages that AtlasCT brings to the market are the company’s ability to support both mobile and web clients through the same platform, and its streaming vector solution, which greatly reduces transmitted map tiles and bandwidth consumption. The company’s advanced streaming vector transmission technology enables reducing transmission times by 90% versus traditional raster (JPEG) transmission. By decreasing map loading times, it improves the users’ experience and reduces the cost of Internet use for the user and the mobile operator.

Through a partnership with Nokia and NAVTEQ, AtlasCT is preinstalled on all Nokia Series 60 smartphones, enabling users to search for local businesses anywhere in the world, and view the results on a map in real-time from the ABmaps portal (http://www.abmaps.com) by AtlasCT. Then, with the push of a button, the user can call one of the businesses, save the information in contacts, or send the map as an MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) to a friend. Mobile map-based search provides revenue opportunities for mobile operators and yellow pages providers for service, bandwidth and airtime. This partnership is powering mobile map-based search for leading international mobile yellow pages providers including Fonecta in Finland, DasOertliche and Suchen in Germany, PagineGialle in Italy, De Telefoongids in the Netherlands, PaginasAmarillas in Spain, Eniro in Sweden, and Yell.com in the United Kingdom.

AtlasCT expects to announce several new partnerships with leading handset manufacturers and web service providers in the coming months.

“I have been following the growth of AtlasCT for a number of years, both as a mobile industry enthusiast and as an AtlasCT partner, and reLive! is yet another example of the company’s success” said Claude Martane, Vice President & General Manager, Europe Wireless Industry, NAVTEQ. “By providing the industry with technology that uses less bandwidth and delivers real-time maps on mobile handsets, AtlasCT drives tangible business value to all mobile operators.”

“Winning the NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge joins the list of successes, including partnerships with Nokia and NAVTEQ, which are establishing AtlasCT as the technology leader and innovator in the web and mobile mapping marketplace” said Tomer Bar-Zeev, Vice President, Business Development & Marketing, AtlasCT. “ReLive! is a fun and easy-to-use social networking tool with great potential, evidenced by our Social Networking category award from the NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge, which also provides real business value for sales and delivery organizations.”

About AtlasCT
AtlasCT, a privately held company, is a leading developer and provider of worldwide mapping solutions. Our products are designed to supply a variety of mapping applications and Location Based Services for both Web and mobile marketplace. Our technological advantage over our competitors is based on using sophisticated streaming vector technology, innovative vector compression methods and patent pending fetching and rendering algorithms. These technologies deliver high quality map images combined with excellent application performance.