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 embedding feature-rich, interactive location services into business websites and applications. 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
• Imagery
• Weather

Multimap provides a choice of interfaces:

• JavaScript API - draggable AJAX maps provide a rich user interaction
• New Static API - lightweight API for non-draggable maps, suitable for dial-up connections and non-JavaScript browsers. Ensures the best possible experience for all users.
• Web services API - direct programming interface for geocoding, routing and searching

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).
• Choose from over 40 categories across more than 20 countries.
• New Wikipedia data.

Weather

• Weather widget dynamically updates to show weather forecast for the map location.
• Easily added to any API service.

Documentation and Support

• The Multimap API is documented with an online SDK (Software Developers Kit) with reference applications and code samples. View the API 1.2 documentation.
• All API customers have access by phone and email to our customer support teams across the globe.

The Multimap public site uses the Multimap API. To see the service in action, please click here.

For more information, download our datasheet or contact your local Multimap office.