Partners
m-spatial complements its own ‘best in breed’ products through partnering with other organisations also acknowledged as the best in their field.
Content Partners
m-spatial maintains relationships with content partners both directly and via its mobile network operator customers both in the UK and across continental Europe.
A small subset of m-spatial’s UK content partners include:
5pm
5pm is the UK’s leading free online restaurant reservation operation, offering the restaurateur the opportunity to fill seats that would otherwise be empty and the consumer great dining deals with no booking charges. 5pm operates in over 950 restaurants across the UK. The 5pm service has been credited with a number of major awards since set-up, winning the Winners on the Web - Best Dot Com of 2001, the Royal Mail’s Grand Prix Award for Marketing, the John Logie Baird Award for Innovation, Visitscotland’s Thistle Award for Marketing and various National Business Awards.
Ents24
Established in 1999, Ents24 is widely recognised as the UK’s leading provider of entertainment listings and information. Ents24’s coverage extends to every city and town in the UK, providing compelling and relevant information for everyone who likes to make the most of their leisure time, whether they’re in Tottenham or Totnes. The website at www.ents24.com, contains over 100,000 pages of information about events around the UK, including details about more than 30,000 artists, 10,000 entertainment venues and 7,000 colour photographs, and is the UK’s Number One website for Entertainment / Nightlife (source: Hitwise).
Kizoom
Kizoom has built and operates some of the world’s most advanced traveller information services for public transport. Our products help travellers to plan their journeys, find real time information and to be alerted about changes to their planned trips. Travellers can access this information over many electronic channels, including the Internet, WAP, SMS, Kiosks, PDAs and Automated Voice.
Mxdata
Mxdata develops and deploys mobile data applications and solutions, predominantly involving the delivery of real time traffic and transport information. TrafficTV was one such application, and was produced in partnership with Orange, RAC, Trafficmaster and seven CCTV providers, It gives you live “at a glance” real-time Trafficmaster™ information overlaid with CCTV camera pictures from the entire UK trunk and motorway network.
Ordnance Survey
Ordnance Survey are the national mapping agency of Great Britain. m-spatial products covering Great Britain utilise a number of Ordnance Survey products including the latest OS MasterMap™ product set.
PointX
PointX provide the most comprehensive, current and consistent Point of Interest (POI) database for Great Britain. This provides m-spatial products with comprehensive POI coverage across the whole of Great Britain.
TeleAtlas
TeleAtlas are a leading supplier of road network data. m-spatial products take advantage of the extensive international coverage of the TeleAtlas dataset across a number of territories.
The Local Data Company
The UK’s most comprehensive city centre business data available. The Local Data Company has created a fantastically detailed and up-to-date database of shops, bars, restaurants, venues and tourist attractions – all the information needed to get the most out of a city centre. We work with some of the biggest names in the industry, from the No.1 search engine to your local borough council.
Industry Associations
As part of its active thought leadership role in relation to the representation and sharing of geo-spatial information, m-spatial is a member of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA).
Open Mobile Alliance
OMA The mission of the Open Mobile Alliance is to grow the market for the entire mobile industry by removing the barriers to global user adoption and by ensuring seamless application interoperability while allowing businesses to compete through innovation and differentiation.
The Mobile Data Association
The Mobile Data Association is the UK’s principal trade body representing the mobile data industry, and is the authorised consolidator of mobile market data on behalf of UK cellular networks. With over 100 members throughout Europe, the MDA provides a forum for the industry to meet and share information, and promotes the uses and benefits of mobile data through conferences, seminars, the media and dedicated website. The MDA also maintains an informal dialogue with the appropriate government and regulatory bodies.
Other Partners
In addition to the partners described above, there are a range of organisations that m-spatial works with periodically to deliver wider solutions to end customers.
These include content providers delivering content via mobile portals, point of interest content providers for specific territories, application developers, system integrators, telecoms infrastructure providers and complementary technology suppliers.
