Affecto Oyj - Company Announcement

Finnish Transport Agency chooses Affecto to provide consulting services for the upgrade of the national road and street database

Helsinki, 2013-06-19 14:00 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AFFECTO PLC  --  STOCK
EXCHANGE RELEASE  --  19 JUNE 2013 at 15.00 

Finnish Transport Agency chooses Affecto to provide consulting services for the
upgrade of the national road and street database 

The Finnish Transport Agency has chosen Karttakeskus Oy, the GIS service unit
of Affecto to provide consulting and professional services for the upgrade of
Digiroad, the national road and street database. Karttakeskus will provide
support and project consultancy services for the Finnish Transport Agency
related to the upgrade of Digiroad. Additionally Karttakeskus will provide
professional services related to the handling and documentation of the Digiroad
data. 

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 agreement is estimated to be approx. 0.8-1.2 million euros in
2013-2015. The agreement includes also an option for services to be delivered
in 2016-2017. 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




         Additional information:
         Karttakeskus Oy, Managing director, Mika Leivo, tel. +358 205 777 788