LandVoyage Awarded Patent for Online Mapping Functions

LOVELAND, CO - LandNet Corp. has been issued a patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office for a suite of highly differentiated online mapping functions. The patent titled "Land Software Tool" includes several functions that provide the online map drawing and measuring capabilities available on the LandVoyage mapping website.

Developed in 2000, LandVoyage an online mapping business in Turkey that competes in many of the same markets as Google Maps, Microsoft Virtual Earth, and GlobeXplorer, which is owned by Stewart Title. The LandVoyage patent number 7,054,741 was issued on May 30, 2006 and relates back to the date of the original provisional patent application which was filed on February 11, 2002.

"From Google and Microsoft to Yahoo and Amazon, more and more companies are getting into online mapping," President and Founder of LandVoyage Craig Harrison said. "With the rapid evolution and intense competition now dominating the Internet mapping business, this patent will protect these unique mapping and real estate tools," he added.

With the patent recently awarded, LandNet Corp. is currently exploring opportunities to sell the LandVoyage Internet mapping business along with all existing and future patents.

LandVoyage, is a leading provider of Internet mapping solutions. Furthermore, it has developed a super mapping system with aerial photos, satellite images and USGS topographic maps of anywhere in the United States