Cellfind & mapIT form Strategic Alliance
South Africa’s foremost location-based mobile and wireless application service provider, Cellfind, has formed a strategic alliance with mapIT, leading international digital mapping partner throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. The alliance will enable Cellfind to extend its services and expand into new markets in Sub-Saharan Africa. Cellfind has built a name for itself in the industry by providing mobile phone tracking, traffic updates, corporate solutions, asset tracking, SMS emergency alerts and panic assistance. The company’s wireless application services allows for quick, efficient and cost- effective bi-directional communication with their customers, while their range of value added services allow mobile phone users to run a wide range of applications and maximise their phone’s features. These services include products such as Vodacom Look4Me and Look4Help, MTN’s WhereRU and 2MyAid as well as other services such as … Read entire article »
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Interactive Map and Live Tracking for The Unogwaja Challenge
~ Follow these charity fundraisers as they take on one of the world’s most gruelling challenges ~ mapIT, in partnership with Altech Netstar, is proud to be backing the third Unogwaja Challenge in support of charity by supplying an interactive map that will follow the athletes. The twelve team members, who will be tracked live throughout the journey, will set off on the morning of the 23 May 2013 at 04:00 am and embark on a 1 749km cycle from Cape Town to Durban over ten days. They will arrive in Durban on the 1 June to compete the next day in The Comrades Marathon with the ambition to finish one of the world’s toughest races in under 12 hours – and all in the name of charity. mapIT has provided The … Read entire article »
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mapIT Introduces the deCarta L2 Geospatial Search Engine in South Africa
~ Customers Can Geocode and Index Custom Geospatial Content and Make it Available in Single Line Local Search ~ Johannesburg, South Africa (April 2013) – mapIT, your digital mapping partner, today introduced deCarta, Inc., the leading independent, global LBS technology company’s 3rd generation local search technology, the L2 Geospatial Search Engine to South Africa. L2 is a high performance, scalable local search engine with single line input and a simpler, more intuitive user interface. deCarta sources and indexes premium map and POI (Points of Interest) content but also enables customers to index and control their own content using the L2 Index tools. Customers can host the search engine either on-premise or in a cloud service such as Amazon’s AWS. “This latest release from deCarta strengthens even further the digital mapping solution stable … Read entire article »
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mapIT’s International Partner Micello Announces 15 000 Indoor Venue Maps Available Worldwide
Johannesburg, South Africa – mapIT, your digital mapping partner, today announced that Micello their international partner has 15 000 indoor venue maps worldwide including 65 shopping malls and 9 airports in South Africa. This data enables enterprises to deploy an extensive array of maps in mobile and desktop applications. “mapIT are pleased to bring yet another international solution to the South African mapping market with this partnership,” said Etienne Louw, Managing Director of mapIT. “With 40% of mobile search having location intent, indoor mapping will offer our clients a whole new dimension to their businesses.” Louw added. The latest maps strengthen the already extensive collection which now includes; • 3, 700, 000, 000+ mapped square feet • 50, 000+ individual buildings • 775, 000+ places of interest (POI) “As the indoor mapping industry heats up, especially … Read entire article »
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mapIT was in Nairobi this week with plans to develop a digital physical address location
Interview with CNBC Africa at our recent developers day in Kenya: … Read entire article »
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mapIT Sponsor the Interactive Route Map for The 2013 Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon
~Make your way around Cape Town with ease this Saturday the 30 March 2013 ~ Johannesburg, South Africa (March 2013) – mapIT, your digital mapping partner, together with their shareholders TomTom Africa, are pleased to announce the sponsorship of the interactive map for Ultra and Half Marathon routes for the 2013 Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon taking place on the 30th March 2013. “We are thrilled to be providing our interactive route map to the ‘world’s most beautiful marathon’ for the fifth year running,” said Carey Dodd, Marketing Manager of mapIT. “The map provides valuable information to participants and spectators to help ease any stress relating to navigation on the day,” Louw added. The interactive map displays the routes for both the 56km ultra and the new 21km half marathon overlaid on a … Read entire article »
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mapIT and Tracker Business Sponsor Interactive Route Map and Live Tracking for the Cape Argus Pick ‘n Pay Cycle Tour
~ Follow international mogul Sir Richard Branson and South African Politician Helen Zille as they take on the epic ride ~ mapIT together with Tracker is pleased to present the Interactive Route Map for the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour taking place in Cape Town on 10 March 2013. Tracker will provide live tracking of the leading men’s and women’s cyclists, celebrities, politicians and charities which will be displayed on the map. The Interactive Map contains vital information such as; refreshment and medical points along the route, accurate street level zooming, an automated routing function to plan and navigate, the race route profile, a function that locates the user’s position on the map and a twitter handle, @CycleTourTrust, for spectators to join in on the Twitter banter using the hashtag … Read entire article »
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mapIT, in association with Integrat, announce their first DEVELOPERS DAY in Kenya using the deCarta LBS API
~An opportunity to play with the latest and greatest JavaScript mapping API ~ To follow on from the last successful mapIT Developers Day held in October 2012, mapIT, are looking at expanding their service offering across Africa and will be hosting their first Developer’s Day in Nairobi, Kenya on the 25th March 2013. The event will be hosted in association with mapIT’s Kenyan partner, Integrat – a leading mobile aggregation services provider. The development session will showcase the latest features available on the deCarta Location Based Services (LBS) platform covering both web and mobile applications. The focus will be on deCarta’s newest version of its JavaScript application programming interface (API) which is built on top of the industry’s leading independent high-volume LBS platform. With more than 8 million kms of road and … Read entire article »
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Digital mapping: hidden secret of SA business
Digital mapping services have emerged as one of the most powerful growth areas in information technology in South Africa. According to a survey by World Wide Worx, conducted with the backing of digital mapping provider mapIT, 76% of South African corporations and 38% of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) spend more than 2% of their information technology (IT) budgets on mapping services. The same proportion of SMEs spend more than R50 000 a year on digital mapping, while 79% of corporates have higher budgets – 22% of corporates spend more than R500 000 on digital mapping every year. “Digital mapping is proving to be the hidden secret weapon of South African business,” says mapIT chief executive officer Etienne Louw. “The research underlines the extent to which large and small businesses alike depend on … Read entire article »
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Uganda mapping out its municipal presence
Digital mapping services and solutions provider, mapIT has announced the launch of the National Postcode & Addressing System – The Entebbe Pilot Project – which took place in Uganda in 2012. Since joining hands in May 2012 with SatNav East Africa, Uganda’s pioneer in Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, the company has been working on the pilot project of the Entebbe SatCodes solution. This addressing solution allows for every property to have a unique “address” and enhance the performance of service providers. “All municipalities who are serious about service delivery should adapt to SatCode Technology,” said Etienne Louw, Managing Director of mapIT. Louw adds that this venture will be the future of municipal addressing and enable these institutions to provide customers with a higher level of service delivery. The project was launched by the … Read entire article »
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