Multimap tracks down hotspots for Wi-Fi users

Multimap’s “Where’s-my-nearest” service has been added to the "TotalHotspot website":http://www.totalhotspots.com, enabling visitors from around the world to search for their nearest hotspot, in their local language, and view location information.

Visitors to totalhotspots.com enter a country, street, town and/or postcode or zip code, and select a search radius, to access a map that plots the location of the venues found.

A list appears beneath this map, with the venue name, distance from location in miles, an icon indicating the location type (such as café or hotel), contact details, wi-fi operator, and charges.

Users click on the item that best fits their needs to access a more detailed map of their chosen venue’s location, and further contact details.

The Wi-Fi Finder service is also accessible at "Multimap":http://www.multimap.com.

Mike Housley, chief executive of totalhotspots.com, said: “The accuracy of Multimap’s “Where’s-my-nearest” service increases footfall to hotspot venues listed in our directory, and this is further boosted by virtue of our services being available via Multimap.com, whose unique user base is unparalleled in size.”

Multimap has also partnered with Mobile Commerce to utillise the mobile content distributor's SMS ‘Storefinder’ service. Users wanting to locate their nearest Wi-Fi ‘hotspot’ on the move text the key word ‘hotspot’ to a common short code number. Information relating to the nearest Wi-Fi spot, including relevant address details are then sent to the user.