30 September 2004

Multimap Announces Partnership with Terralink to Provide Local Online Mapping Services to New Zealand

Multimap, one of the world’s leading online mapping providers, today announced a partnership with Terralink, New Zealand’s leading land information, mapping and data integration company. Thanks to the partnership, Multimap now offers high-quality, street-level mapping services to consumers and businesses across New Zealand.

The partnership with Terralink is part of Multimap’s strategy to work with providers of the highest-quality mapping data in every new country it enters. Chris Warrick, managing director of Multimap Australasia, said, “We are really pleased to be entering the New Zealand market in partnership with Terralink. Our best-of-breed technology and proven experience in location-based mapping services, combined with Terralink’s top-notch street-level mapping and comprehensive coverage, means that we can offer the very highest calibre of service to our users in this territory. We’re looking forward to building Terralink’s mapping data into more of our own services, and into the web sites of many businesses based in New Zealand.”

Multimap is Europe’s number one internet mapping company and delivers more online maps, point-to-point driving directions and geospatial (where’s my nearest) searches to more countries than any other supplier in Europe. It plans to replicate its European success in Australasia over the next four years.

Mike Donald, Chief Executive of Terralink, commented, “There are a wealth of businesses here in New Zealand that will benefit immensely from Multimap’s maps and Storefinder services. We are delighted that Europe’s most successful mapping company has selected Terralink to provide the geo-spatial data for its web services, and we look forward to working together to deliver these tremendously useful services to New Zealand’s public and business communities.”

About Multimap.com

Multimap.com 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 WAP, PDA, kiosk, and interactive TV platforms and in multiple languages.

The public web site 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 and Australia; road maps of the world; door-to-door travel directions; aerial photographs; weather forecasts; links to location information; and services such as hotel, restaurant and entertainment booking. The public site attracts over 7.3 million unique users, registers more than 140 million page impressions every month, and is one of the top 10 most visited web sites in the UK. Multimap recently came 27th in The Sunday Times’ Tech Track 100 league table of fastest-growing companies.