22 April 2008, 8:42am
ANCHORAGE, AK April 22, 2008 - LeadDog Consulting, a leading international provider of premium street and road maps announced the release of a major roads and highways geographic database for Kazakhstan.
LeadDog maps are in use in a wide range of applications from military and government emergency and defense support to commercial fleet management and location based services. LeadDog products provide accurate base level mapping and numerous vector layers and attributes such as:
- Major roads and freeways at 1:250,000 scale
- Secondary roads
- Political division and borders
- Rail-Road system
- Rivers and Lakes
- Airports
- Thousands of towns, cities and "points of interest"
Detailed city streets maps for Almaty and Astana are available at 1:10,000 scale. All LeadDog products are available in all major GIS formats.
LeadDog has vector mapping for over 80 countries making them one of the leading mapping companies worldwide; with an extensive library that is critically focused in the Middle East, Africa, Mexico, the rest of Latin America, and Asia.

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