We’ve been releasing a lot of new Aerial and Bird’s Eye imagery lately, so we thought it was time to do the same for our maps.
The keen-eyed among you may have noticed that we released maps of many new areas over the weekend on Multimap.com. We’ve combined our street level maps in Europe, with maps from Microsoft Virtual Earth that provide you with improved country and region level maps worldwide and new street level coverage of including…
Asia - Japan
Africa - Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, South Africa
Eastern Europe -Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia
Central and South America - Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile
These new maps are available on Multimap.com today, and will be available via our Multimap API for business customers and Open API for developers over the next few weeks.
Our friends on the Microsoft Virtual Earth team have also just delivered another 20TB of Aerial and Bird’s Eye images, which also includes some new UK imagery. A big thank you to them all!!
Enjoy!!
New Aerial and Bird’s Eye images for Euro 2008
June 7th, 2008
The European Football Championship, hosted by Austria and Switzerland, starts today at Basel’s St. Jakob Park, and we’ve released some updated Aerial imagery of the venues to mark the occasion. This is part of the massive 69.2TB of new imagery just released, and Chris’s blog is worth checking out for more information.
With England spectacularly failing to quality, it’s down to the Multimap Istanbul office to get behind their national team (although we do have an English-born player ourselves!!!).
Everyone here in Turkey is getting very excited, and I have big hopes for local player Nihat Kahveci, who scored the winning goal to get us to the Championships.
There’s just the small matter of beating many peoples favourites Portugal at the Stade de Genève, followed by the host’s Switzerland (in front of packed home crowd in Basel), and then back to Geneva to meet the always dangerous Czech Republic, who beat the favourites Germany 3-0 on their way to qualifying!!! So no pressure then!?…
It all culminates with the Final at Vienna’s Ernst Happel Stadium on June 29th.
Haydi Turkiye!!!!
Dawn of a New Era
May 20th, 2008
It’s now just over a year since we launched the ‘new’ version of multimap.com, which included a complete re-design of the user interface and took advantage of the latest browser technology to offer a rich user experience with a wide range of new features. Never a company to take its user loyalty for granted, we have continued to run the old site alongside the new one for those users who were not ready to move to the new site just yet.
Today heralds the start of another chapter at Multimap as we retire the ‘old’ site and move forward to embrace the next era of online mapping.
Bird’s Eye!??
May 15th, 2008
When Matthew announced that we now have Bird’s Eye images in Australia, courtesy of Microsoft Virtual Earth, I messaged him afterwards and said “do you think most users actually know what Bird’s Eye is? They might get the wrong idea…” (we haven’t sent the Captain to sell Turkey Twizzlers in Oz for example). Little did I know he would challenge me to try to explain what it’s all about to you all, so here goes…
New routes to Multimap
May 9th, 2008
A few weeks ago, we shared our plans for redirecting users from MSN UK and Live.com to www.multimap.com, while continuing to offer the maps.live.com experience for those who choose it.
Short story: today we implemented the plans we described then.
Longer story:
About that re-direct…
April 15th, 2008
A great thing about the Internet is that when you put yourself on the line and get things right, users sometimes tell you . The downside of course, is that when you get it wrong, users ALWAYS tell you. In public.
A new and improved Multimap…
April 11th, 2008
You might be wondering why you’ve not heard much from us recently regarding our acquisition by Microsoft.
Back in December, we mentioned that it was all business as usual here at Multimap, and that is still very much the case. Our London office still provides the heartbeat of Multimap, and you still have to be quick to grab your favourite bagel on Fridays (cinnamon and raisin in my case)…
Being part of an organization such as Microsoft however, gives you the opportunity to access fantastic new technology and content. Since the new year we’ve been burning the midnight oil to bring some of these new capabilities to Multimap.com, and we’re delighted to show the results of this to you today.
Chinese maps on the menu
January 15th, 2008
Which way to Quanjude, the home of Peking Duck?
China is a booming business and tourist destination, and a huge domestic market. It has also been, until now, a new frontier for online mapping in Chinese, let alone English. We are very happy to announce that that is all changing, as we have partnered with MapABC, the premier local mapping company, to pioneer bilingual Chinese mapping.
Treasure maps
December 14th, 2007
Users of multimap.com may have noticed that, if you are in London, you have a choice of map styles. The good people from Harper Collins provide the local street maps that many Londoners are familiar with, while our friends at Tele Atlas provide many of the maps for much of the world that you see on multimap.com.
Business as usual
December 13th, 2007
You may be aware that yesterday was a rather important day for us all at Multimap, as we announced that Multimap is being acquired by Microsoft.
A lot has been written about the deal so I won’t add to that here, other than to say that while we are all very excited by the new possibilities that come from being part of the Microsoft family, it is still very much business as usual here at Multimap. We still pronounce our name mult-ee-map (rather than mult-eye-map!), and we’re still committed to offering our users and our customers the same great service, great products and great functionality you’ve come to expect from Multimap.
Speaking of great functionality, why not have a look at our new Wikipedia layer?