Mappy

Mappy is a Web site of road maps. It makes it possible to locate a Localité or a addresses, and to calculate a road Itinéraire between two points in Europe. The site is available in 13 Langue S.

History

Created in 1987, the service iTi, old name of Mappy, is published by Lpri, subsidiary of Wanadoo/France Telecom. First of all available via Minitel (3615 iTi), the service is the first calculator of route on these media. As of 1992, the routes are available on paper thanks to the fax (3617 iTi) and with the Courrier.

The geographic coverage reaches already 18 countries in 1993. One year before the availability of the service on Internet in 1997, a version CD-ROM of the road service is available. iTi extends its range of services a little later by proposing tourist information (1998) then by allowing the reservation of Hôtel in line (1999).

In 2000, iTi is renamed Mappy and widens its services in Europe, covering, in 2002, 5 600 000 km of roads and 335 000 localities in Europe. The quality of its services also evolves/moves, and Mappy proposes since 2003 air photographs of more than 60 European cities. Since 2006, the whole of the French territory is covered thanks to a partnership with the national geographical Institut which provides the images.

Since January 2006, Mappy proposes a personal space with inscription called Mappy me, which makes it possible to safeguard the charts and routes and them to send to correspondents (since it is not possible to establish major bond), by commenting on them.

More recently, from the partnerships were concluded:

with the RATP, allowing to carry out a route in Ile-de-France by taking account of the networks of Public transport;
with Weather-France, so that it is possible to know the weather forecasting posted place.

End 2006, Mappy decides to launch, following the example ViaMichelin, its own receiver autonomous GPS called Mappy Iti. This personal Assistant of navigation will propose, in addition to its functions GPS, of the functionalities Multimédia like the reading of DivX or MP3.

Mappy.com is published today by Mappy SA, subsidiary of the PagesJaunes. The charts of Mappy are used besides on the PagesJaunes.fr. site.

See too

Source

Section “Which are we? ” of mappy.com

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