MapNTL.com is Nigeria’s largest online interactive mapping and location-based services provider. Visitors can get accurate driving turn-by-turn direction from one point or business in Lagos to the other. Mapntl.com contains street map of Lagos totaling 5,400km in length  which if laid end-to-end is about five times the distance from Port Harcourt to Kano and more than two-third of earth’s equatorial radius.  

Anthony Lawrence, The Business Development Manager of STL -the parent company of mapntl.com and the provider of the mapping data used to develop the website said that “The planimetric accuracy of the Lagos street map used for mapntl.com is about 1m . Each street in the database has a name, a suburb, the speed limit, and direction. The roads are classified into Express , Major and Minor roads. This level of accuracy and quality is the direct result of the fact that STL literally drove through the street of Lagos to collect the field attributes used to develop the road network data.

Lagos is a city of over 9million people buzzing with activity. Driving in Lagos, from one location to another imposes stress as in no other city in the world. It is a battle for space between huge trucks, taxis, and pedestrians. It is also a battle for survival between commercial motorbikes popularly called “Okadas” and frustrated commercial bus drivers known as “Danfo drivers” who are always impatient to get to their destination at break-neck speeds. The traditional method of obtaining driving direction in Lagos is to stop at road corners to ask the local people. Many people had been sent on wrong routes in Lagos just because they ask people who hate to admit that they do not know the routes they were asked. Mapntl.com removes this problem because visitors get accurate turn-by-turn driving direction from any point A to point B in Lagos from the comfort of their homes or offices where internet connection is available. Routes are calculated based on both “shortest” and “Quickest” options.

Visitors to the website can also get driving direction to over 25,000 business locations within Lagos alone as its database contains the location of over 524 Bank branches and ATM locations, 2,424 restaurants, 2,580 hotels/Motels, 2,451 schools, 2,370 open markets, 982 shopping malls/complexes, 5,764 major offices, 1,267 petrol stations, 3,358 churches, 1,837 mosques, 478 Estates all within Lagos alone. Businesses can be searched by using their names e.g. Mr Biggs or area e.g. Oyingbo.

According to Ireti Ajala the founder of mapntl.com and the CEO of STL “The combination of accurate and superb mapping capability and innovative driving directions offered by mapntl.com gives users an incredibly powerful and easy way to find what they want and get where they want to go. Unlike paper maps that contain just static information which easily gets outdated, mapntl.com offers dynamic content and rich information about Lagos roads, suburb and business locations along a route in a way that cannot ever be possible using the traditional paper maps. In addition, mapntl.com is more easily updated and the information is fresh and more accurate than a paper map”