26 February 2006

Multimap, one of the world's leading online mapping providers, today announced that consumers can now access point-to-point travel directions for Australia and New Zealand free of charge. The service delivers directions as a highlighted route on a map, and as a text list, which visitors can then print up and pocket, saving them time and effort when it comes to journey planning.

Commenting on the service, Chris Warrick, Managing Director of Multimap Australasia, said, "Multimap has comprehensive street-level coverage of unparalleled quality for both Australia and New Zealand, thanks to our partnerships with PSMA and Terralink, these countries' respective pre-eminent data providers. Couple this with Multimap's robust technology platform, and you get a very accurate and reliable travel directions service. We are thrilled to offer such a useful and time-saving service to our consumer site users and business customers, and look forward to rolling out to other countries in the region in the near future."

To access the Travel Directions service, visitors to www.multimap.com.au and www.multimap.co.nz:

• click on the ‘Travel Directions' tab on the homepage;
• enter the addresses of the start and end point of their journey (street, suburb/town, state and/or postcode); and
• opt for the ‘quickest' or ‘shortest' route and hit ‘Find'.

Multimap will then deliver an overview map highlighting the most appropriate route along with step-by-step travel directions as a text list. Individual and cumulative distances are provided, along with expected time of arrival and total duration of journey. More detailed maps showing a particular step of the journey are available at the click of a mouse, and all maps delivered are clear, up-to-date and easy to read. Users can zoom in/out and pan N,S,E,W to adjust their view.

Multimap is the only online mapping company that enables users to search for a map or travel directions by Australian or New Zealand suburb or town. This innovation, plus the recently-updated mapping data of both countries available at scales of 1:200,000, 1:500,000, and 1:1million, demonstrate Multimap's continued commitment to providing top-notch mapping services that help visitors as they go about their busy, day-to-day lives.

So don't delay! Make sure you keep your journey as short and sweet as possible by using www.multimap.com.au and www.multimap.co.nz as your premier resources for journey planning!

About Multimap

Multimap is Europe's leading provider of mapping and location-based services. The company delivers more online maps, point-to-point driving directions and geo-spatial ("where's my nearest?") searches to more companies than any other supplier in Europe. All services are offered on mobile, PDA, kiosk, and interactive TV platforms and in multiple languages.

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 and Australia; 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. The public site attracts over 10 million unique users, registers more than 180 million page impressions every month, and is one of the top 10 most visited websites in the UK. Multimap recently featured in The Sunday Times Fast Track 100 league table of fastest-growing unquoted UK companies across all sectors.

In the Australian and New Zealand markets, leading companies including Wotif.com.au, Flight Centre.com.au, PropertyLook.com.au, eHound, aussiehome.com, Commercial Real Estate and Colliers International New Zealand, have selected Multimap as their online mapping partner. They tell us that our location-based services not only offer rich content that enhances the user's experience of their sites, but that they also drive people to their real-world locations. Increased footfall through the doors translates easily and quickly to growth in sales.