SOURCE: Urban Mapping

 

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - March 18, 2009) - Urban Mapping, Inc. (UMI) announced today that its critically acclaimed Panamap™ has been named Best of Show for the 2009 HOW International Design Awards. In total, Urban Mapping has now won eight design awards for its unique multi-layered map. For more information on Urban Mapping's entry for the 2009 HOW International Design Awards see the March/April issue of HOW magazine or visit http://www.howdesign.com/bestofshow.

Urban Mapping's Panamap products feature the company's patented MapAction™ technology, which provides an efficient and elegant means of viewing multi-layered information. The maps deliver contextually-relevant information, such as street grids, subway lines and footprints of well-known landmarks and neighborhoods, in a format that enables users to view different information depending on how they hold the map. The map's reverse side includes entertainment venues, museums, sights, shopping and restaurants.

HOW Magazine stated that Urban Mapping's "award-winning project combines the best of print and interactive design in a new tool to help people navigate through cities." In fact, it was the interactive nature of the technology that stood out with the judges. Shannon Carter, one of the competition's judges, believes that Panamap redefines the very concept of a map, adding, "It feels like it's always been like this, and you can't imagine a map any other way. It's an amazing use of design and technology."

HOW strives to serve the business, technological and creative needs of graphic-design professionals. The magazine also sponsors four high-profile graphic design competitions annually, including the International Design Awards. Urban Mapping will be honored as the Best of Show winner at the 2009 HOW Design Conference in Austin, Texas in June of this year.

About Panamap

Panamaps are currently available for Chicago and Manhattan. The maps can be purchased at a number of prestigious retail locations, such as the Guggenheim Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Store, Takashimaya and the Sears Tower Skydeck, or online at http://panamap.com/purchase. More information about MapAction technology and other awards won by Urban Mapping can be found at http://panamap.com.

About Urban Mapping, Inc.

Urban Mapping's location-rich URBANWARE™ products enhance the value of local content for interactive applications. The company's flagship product, URBANWARE Neighborhoods, is a database of informal space and is used by all major portals, map platforms and Internet yellow page publishers, including Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft's Virtual Earth, Idearc's SuperPages.com, MapQuest and AT&T's YellowPages.com. Urban Mapping also offers databases of mass transit systems and off-street parking lots, as well as a novel geotargeting solution focused on the needs of local search. For more information about Urban Mapping, visit http://www.urbanmapping.com or call 415.946.8170.

Urban Mapping, URBANWARE, Panamap and MapAction are trademarks or registered trademarks of Urban Mapping, Inc. All other names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.