Affecto Oyj - Company Announcement

Finnish Transport Agency chooses Affecto to continue as the operator of the national road and street database

Helsinki, 2011-03-29 14:15 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AFFECTO PLC -- STOCK
EXCHANGE RELEASE -- 29 MARCH 2011 at 15:15 

Finnish Transport Agency chooses Affecto to continue as the operator of the
national road and street database 

The Finnish Transport Agency has chosen Affecto to continue as the operator of
Digiroad, the national road and street database. Karttakeskus Oy, the GIS
service unit of Affecto, will provide the maintenance and information service
of Digiroad for the Finnish Transport Agency. Digiroad is a national database
which contains precise and accurate data on the location of all roads and
streets in Finland as well as their most important physical features, covering
a total of 483 000 km. 

The value of the three-year agreement signed by the Finnish Transport Agency
and Karttakeskus is approx. 2 million euros including the add-on work and the
agreement includes two optional years. The Finnish Transport Agency chose
Karttakeskus based on a national tender process. 

Karttakeskus is the leading IT solution provider in Finland focused on
geographic information systems. Karttakeskus offers GIS consultation, IT
solutions, digital navigation and map services and outsourcing services. 



Affecto Plc
Hannu Nyman
Senior Vice President, M&A, IR




         Karttakeskus Oy, Managing director, Mika Leivo, tel. +358 205 777 788
         Finnish Transport Agency, Unit manager, Reijo Prokkola, tel. +358 20
637 3590