02 April 2006

Hitwise Australia, the online competitive intelligence service, today awarded Multimap the prestigious Hitwise Top 10 award for the ‘Travel-Maps’ category for the first quarter of 2006. During this period, www.multimap.com.au ranked no. 6 by visits against other Australian websites in the same category.

The Hitwise Australia Top 10 Awards recognise outstanding business achievement and acknowledge the most successful websites in key industries based on popularity (defined by the percentage of user visits received during Q1, 2006).

Commenting on the award, Chris Warrick, Managing Director for Multimap Australasia, "On behalf of the whole Multimap team here in Sydney, I am delighted to accept this highly-coveted award! We make it our mission to constantly improve and refine the quality and breadth of the services that we provide to both our business clients in the region, and users of our local website, www.multimap.com.au. News travels fast and, as more and more people learn about how easy it is to find all their travel requirements on the site, and indeed how comprehensive and accurate our mapping coverage is, we continue to see significant increases on the number of visitors. And those visitors, once they see the quality of the services that we provide, quickly become loyal customers. We remain focused on providing top-notch online mapping and location-based services to both the public and the business communities, to ensure our continued high-growth and popularity in the future! "

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 190 million page impressions every month, and is one of the top 10 most visited websites in the UK.