Via Michelin Maps &Route Planner Guide

Via Michelin is a travel assistance, design and developer service that has its own digital maps making products. Their well-developed free travel routing service can be accessed online any time at : viamichelin. In fact, they are more than a one stop site to get the most comprehensive information about travel, map, traffic, restaurant, hotel, and a few more.

Apart from getting free travel routing and mapping data, if needed you can also take their services for your business and personal needs. You can have their services via a multiple ways like Internet, cell phones, PDAs and GPS. In Via Michelin site you can easily find detail information about the following.

• Travel routes
• Traffic information
• Weather
• Hotels
• Restaurants

Routes

When you enter the home page of Via Michelin you will find the option of a route calculator that you can use to find route information and its map. For using this route calculator, just enter the departure and destination information. Additionally, you can have driving directions to a place as well- a complete direction by car, motorbike, cycle, and on foot, with some useful options like petrol cost, distance, and tolls information.

Viamichelin Map

In Via Michelin web site, you will find the ‘map’ tab just beside the Routes tab. When you click on the map tab, you will be presented with a map search option on the left panel, and on the right panel your map will appear. For example you need a complete map of a place, and then you need to enter town, city, and postcode and country information of the place in the Address bar and then click on the search button. If you have complete address of the house you are looking for then you can add that info. In the second address bar. This map section will also help you find nearby hotels, if you plan to stay in that place for a while. You just have to put the arrival date, number of night you want to stay and the number of people- instantly you will be shown all the important hotels information in the vicinity of your travel place.

Via Michelin Weather

One of the very important information a traveler need when he goes for traveling is the weather updates and forecasting of his destination. Via Michelin weather updates will let you find daily temperature within 3 hours interval align with wind speed and direction. Also you will come to know 10 days weather forecast in advance. If you plan for a trip to a place and expect to enjoy lovely sunny days, then it is better to make your plan as per weather forecasting pattern of your destination- today’s advanced weather forecasting system is almost immaculate, so you can rely on the forecasting available in Via Michelin web site.

Hotels

Via Michelin website’s one of the very useful feature is finding hotel booking information by specifying your requirements that you want to have in your booked hotel,such as hotels with satellite TV, car parking, disabled access, star rating, animal access, Internet etc. For getting detail hotel booking information, click on the ‘Hotels’ tab in Michelin site and then just put your destination place name and the number of night stays and guest-that’s all will give you a list of most famous hotel in the vicinity of your travel location.

Restaurants

This is very unique feature of Via Michelin site, because the restaurant feature of Via Michelin will let you find your desired cuisines available in the restaurant nearby your travel destination. Whether you are looking for French, contemporary, Italian or seafood. If you under tight budget, and like to find a list of restaurant serving food between 10£ to 20£, then you set the “Prices” option, also you can find the best restaurant list of a locality.

Via Michelin Travel

This option help to pre-organize the travel destination spots with a list of most attractive tourist destinations of a city or a country along with many useful description and cultural heritage of and accommodation information, of those places. This portion of Via Michelin site is a must visit to have a glimpse of a country's most visited places with slide shows.

Traffic Information

ViaMichelin Traffic provides real time traffic information of all the major cities of France and United Kingdom. You can have detail information about the level of congestion, accidents, and speed camera locations. Their traffic condition data can be accessed at - http://www.viamichelin.com/web/Traffic

List of Via Michelin Websites

Via Michelin has their websites in a number of languages. All the available site lists is given below

• viamichelin.at
• viamichelin.be
• viamichelin.ch
• viamichelin.co.uk
• viamichelin.com
• viamichelin.de
• viamichelin.es
• viamichelin.fr
• viamichelin.it
• viamichelin.nl
• viamichelin.pl
• viamichelin.pt

Via Michelin Business Solution

They have business s0lutations for all types of business- SME, large business, agency, consultancy and IT companies. The services are mainly for geo-locating and mapping. The followings are a list Via Michelin business solution:

1. Online location services

2. Business applications

3. Mobile applications

4. Content

5. Printing

For developing your business Via Michelin can help you develop a comprehensive mapping solution integrated in your web site. This service enables a site to display location map, a route calculator, show commercial network within a navigational map and proximity searching service. Not that only through website you can deliver this mapping service, it is also possible to offer location service with mobile and printing media. At this booming era of online advertising, ViaMichelin realize well the business value of geo-located advertising that primarily customized banner ads on the basis of an online user’s geographical request, and incorporate maps into dynamic ads shown online.

Via Michelin web site-a definite fun for travelers due to its wide spectrum of travel routes and mapping information. But it also has some valuable and dynamic services like geo-location mapping that can certainly boost business value to not only SME but also to mid and large businesses.