Michael Weber
Hot-Map
Company information
• Hot Maps publishes beautiful real maps online using its own interactive technology, which produces an online version of printed high quality maps. The unique featured maps on hot-map.com are of the quality you would usually buy as an atlas or folding map in a bookstore, and are Hot Maps’ own and those of other notable map publishers.
• Hot Maps are available in syndication tailor-made for any website and are adaptable to any requirement, directory, database, locator and language. The Hot Maps team has been running some of the world’s largest real cartographic map websites since 1998, serving millions of web users from many nations.
• Hot Maps clients license anything from a single small location map to thousands of maps. The reference list includes some of the most prestigious names in the public and private sectors worldwide.....
Interest in online marketplace
• Hot Map supports, welcomes and publishes maps on its platform from small cartographic businesses, right down to one person enterprises, as well as from municipalities and associations of various kinds, origins, nationalities, directions or views. This helps to nurture diversity of maps online, and also to finance keeping the art of making printed maps alive. We are happy about and interested in all maps we see, on hot-map.com or any other website.
Current thoughts
• For centuries maps have had great political, social and economic significance: their content and interpretation may result in serious consequences for an individual, the society of a country and even the world community. So it is important that there is more than only one source of cartography online (namely the already almost totally dominant Google Maps) and that mid-size and small independent cartographers can make a living with their work and are easily found on the internet
• Yet Google Maps API, which is licensed free of charge to a mass of websites around the world, leaves no more income to be made for cartographers on the web or on mobile devices, and Google’s universal search always prioritises Google Maps, taking almost all of the possible traffic away from other online cartographers.
• Hot Maps publishes beautiful real maps online using its own interactive technology, which produces an online version of printed high quality maps. The unique featured maps on hot-map.com are of the quality you would usually buy as an atlas or folding map in a bookstore, and are Hot Maps’ own and those of other notable map publishers.
• Hot Maps are available in syndication tailor-made for any website and are adaptable to any requirement, directory, database, locator and language. The Hot Maps team has been running some of the world’s largest real cartographic map websites since 1998, serving millions of web users from many nations.
• Hot Maps clients license anything from a single small location map to thousands of maps. The reference list includes some of the most prestigious names in the public and private sectors worldwide.....
Interest in online marketplace
• Hot Map supports, welcomes and publishes maps on its platform from small cartographic businesses, right down to one person enterprises, as well as from municipalities and associations of various kinds, origins, nationalities, directions or views. This helps to nurture diversity of maps online, and also to finance keeping the art of making printed maps alive. We are happy about and interested in all maps we see, on hot-map.com or any other website.
Current thoughts
• For centuries maps have had great political, social and economic significance: their content and interpretation may result in serious consequences for an individual, the society of a country and even the world community. So it is important that there is more than only one source of cartography online (namely the already almost totally dominant Google Maps) and that mid-size and small independent cartographers can make a living with their work and are easily found on the internet
• Yet Google Maps API, which is licensed free of charge to a mass of websites around the world, leaves no more income to be made for cartographers on the web or on mobile devices, and Google’s universal search always prioritises Google Maps, taking almost all of the possible traffic away from other online cartographers.
