A Powerful Online Interactive Street Finder in Lagos

Have you tried using Google map recently to search for a street in Lagos and see it on an interactive map as its done in Europe and North America? 

Recently, an attempt was made to search for Ojuelegba Road on Google map. Below was the map page that was returned.

Yes Google Map could not understand Ojuelegba Road!!

One of the suggestions was  "try entering a postcode" -well do you know the postcode of Ojuelegba Rd? Perhaps NIPOST should come to the rescue!!!)

Yes Google has very interesting satellite imageries of Lagos and Nigeria, but it really has no intelligence to support a simple search and find to be ultimately useful to the Nigerian environment as it is Europe. Yes, people can see their houses including all those rusty zinc roofs, but really they have to know where to look

 Here comes Nigeria's Version of Google Map

 MapNTL.com contains the digital map of over 450,000 streets in Lagos covering an estimated 2,500Sqkm landmass. This space is home to over 80% of Lagos population. MapNTL.com’s powerful map search engine allows a map user to search for a street by name and see its location -call it humble beginning

 

A Powerful Street Finder in Lagos

A user can search for any street in Lagos by name and see its location on an interactive map.

MapNTL.com allows users to search for  any street in Lagos by name e.g. Demurin Road, Coker Rd -Ilupeju or the location of any business by name, e.g. Mr Biggs -Demurin Rd, Ketu and see its location on an interactive online map

On MapNTL.com, Users can:

• Search and find the location of over 450,000 streets in Lagos

• Zoom in and Out

• Recenter map in any direction

• see business locations as they line up a street

But what Happens when Multiple Streets Are Found?

In the absence of a functional postcode and advance address system in Lagos, it is often common to have more than one streets with the same name but located at different sections of the city. MapNTL.com’s powerful map database contains unique listing for every single streets in Lagos. This was achieved by attaching an area name to every street thereby making it very easy for map users to differentiate and select the precise street they are interested in.

 How does this Unique Street Finder benefit Businesses in Lagos?

With over 10million internet users in Nigeria and majority of them in Lagos, people now go online to search for information including how to get around Lagos. MapNTL.com removes any potential confusion and difficulty in getting the precise location of any street in Lagos. This will definitely encourage more users to use MapNTL.com to search for more streets where businesses are located.

 

A Force for Good for Embassies in Nigeria

 In recent times, a practical use had been found for MapNTL.com by foreigners who had received bogus mails from '419' fraudsters. These foreigners have always been inhibited by the absence of a fuctional intelligent online map portal for Nigeria to verify addresses in Lagos. MapNTL.com therefore couldn't have come at a better time. Embassies in Lagos have been using MapNTL.com's street finder to provide useful information to their nationals who request for such details.