Shell GeoStar, the leading pan-European interactive Car Travel portal, and Maporama, European leader in online location-centric solutions announces today, the implementation of Maporama¹s market-leading location products into the www.ShellGeoStar.com website and also its mobile version for i-mode.
Maporama¹s solutions have been implemented on two distinct platforms for Shell GeoStar: on the Web and for the first time outside Japan, for the i-mode platform – Shortly to be launched by telco operators in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. The i-mode implementation features an ergonomic interface offering similar functionality to the www.ShellGeoStar.com website.
The Million+ visitors to Shell GeoStar can now access Maporama-powered location mapping and routing and obtain access to the Internet¹s largest street level cartographic coverage offering detailed maps and journey services for all European countries.
Via Shell GeoStar’s easy-to-use interface, internet users access a powerful pan-European travel-planning facility, allowing them to pinpoint various points of interest and facilities on their journey, including hotels, restaurants, ski-resorts, amusement parks, car-rentals, attractions, ferries and Shell petrol stations. Maporama’s maps are always displayed together with the information on the requested location. In a single click, the users also obtain detailed, turn-by-turn driving directions guiding them directly to their destination of choice.
