| Acquired by | Microsoft |
| Date | 12/07 |
| Website | multimap.com |
| Blog | blog.multimap.com |
| Category | Consumer Web |
| Phone | +4+44 (0) 20 7632 7777 |
| Employees |
Multimap provides mapping and location-based services. The company delivers online maps, point-to-point driving directions and geo-spatial (“where’s my nearest?”) searches. All services are offered on mobile, PDA, kiosk, and interactive TV platforms. They also offer a highly-functional API (Application Programming Interface).
The public website, www.multimap.com, provides a range of free, useful services to assist with everyday life. Key features include street-level maps of Europe, USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and some countries in Asia; road maps of the world; door-to-door travel directions; aerial photographs; links to location information; and services such as hotel, restaurant and entertainment booking. www.multimap.com registers more than 190 million page impressions every month, and is the UK’s most popular online mapping website.
Multimap operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Microsoft, as part of the Virtual Earth and Search teams in the Online Services Group.
