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The Multimap API - The one-stop, global, location service

Mapping and location-based services are essential elements of any high-quality business website: they drive people to your real-world locations, enhance consumers' experience of your site and increasingly form the center-piece of online search, book and buy transactions.

For businesses with a location dimension, including the property, travel and tourism, retail, automotive, directories, government and manufacturing sectors, showing information in a local context is critical to connecting with consumers and boosting the conversion rate of surfers to footfall and buyers.

The Multimap API gives businesses unprecedented capability and control over their location services, providing a single, integrated and supported service for mapping, geocoding, searching and routing.

Our business services

Multimap has been delivering mapping and location services across many industries and countries for over a decade. More than 1,200 businesses worldwide use Multimap services to connect with their customers, including lastminute.com, Active Hotels, Opodo, Wyndham Hotels, Wotif.com, Flight Centre, Ford, Vodafone and Yell.com. Our consumer web site, www.multimap.com, registers in excess of 12 million unique users and delivers more than 190 million page views per month. Our services are available for most countries, many languages and multiple platforms, and are now available via the Multimap API.

Multimap continues to innovate

Since 1995, Multimap has continually innovated to realize the potential of mapping and location-based services. We were the first mapping company to provide our services as an XML feed, and were a pioneering force in making maps available on mobile phones. We are now in the vanguard of enabling leading-edge location solutions by making our services commercially available via an open API.

The Multimap API enables our customers to embed feature-rich, interactive location services into business websites. The service is fully documented and supported, providing the ability to customize rich client-side behavior and look and feel. The Multimap API provides access via a single interface to:

• Mapping
• Geocoding
• Searching
• Routing
• Points of Interest data and imagery

Feature Highlights

Mapping

• Draggable maps with 'fast fill' smooth zooming
• Suite of widgets (including location breadcrumbs, overview map, map tools, zoom slider)
• Custom menus, map interactions and events
• Custom markers with automatic 'de-clutter', tabbed info boxes, dynamic text and icons
• Choice of map types (map, aerial imagery*, hybrid*) and styles (local*, global) - (* where available)

Geocoding

• Single point of access to Multimap's full, best-in-class geocoding capability
• High-accuracy, high-performance geocoding
• Javascript and HTTP access

Searching

• Choice of search modes, including search by radius, location ID, bounding box, donut and driving distance, search along route and non-spatial search
• Custom result ordering, pagination and display
• Fuzzy searching (including starts with, ends with, contains, sounds like)
• Plug-and-play POI data

Routing

• Point-to-point, multiple via points and 'traveling salesman' optimization
• Multi-language directions
• Multi-modal routing (e.g., drive to here, then walk to here) and avoid specific road types
• Choice of outputs (text, highlight, 'expense claim', summary)
• Enabled for route animation

Local Information

• Display and interact with local POI (see our Local Information datasheet for details).

Technical Quick Facts

• API - JavaScript API for all services. HTTP access to geocoding services.
• SDK - The Multimap API is documented with reference applications and code samples.

Contact Us

To find out more, or to discuss your individual needs, please contact sales@multimap.com or get in touch with your local Multimap office:

• Europe +44 (0)20 7632 7800
• North America +1 617 423 4510
• Australasia and Asia +61 2 9262 6551