Makani

Dubai Municipality - GIS Dept

About this app

Unique application for providing the official geographic addressing system adopted in the Emirates of Dubai, Ajman, Umm Al Quwain, Fujairah & Ras Al Khaimah.
Dubai is the first city in the world to use numbers called "Makani Number" to exactly locating building’s entrance(s). Simple addressing, consists of 10 digits only (E.g.: 30032 95320) which doesn’t require using names, codes or explaining the location’s direction. Mentioning only numbers for describing location suits multi-nationalities with different languages in the U.A.E.

The application aims to make it easy for all residents and tourists to search, define & locate places and enjoy navigating to desired destinations by using mobiles, tablets, desktop & GPS navigational devices accurately and quickly.


• Search for Makani numbers & point of interest by voice.
• Building boundary & its main entrance(s) highlights will be pointed with Makani Number once the user points on a building in the satellite/normal mode through the interactive map.
• Full details of selected place with street level imagery view.
• Ability to link Makani number with contact on your mobile for direct access & search.
• Manage your favourite (saved) places in a very simple way.
• Advanced Search using land number and the traditional addressing system to specify a location & get its Makani Number.
• Reads QR code in Makani plates & finds all related information.
• Plan route with multi destinations; shows the routes on the map & explains the steps to reach the target site.
• Share the location of a place with others through different communication channels.
• English & Arabic interfaces.

Try the application to discover additional features.

Ratings and reviews

Absolutely horrible app. Doesn't load any data when you click on the map and cant lookup anything just entering partial address such as street #. Just update google maps instead of trying to reinvent the wheel.

the worst app ever. never works, website not working either. disaster

unreliable application, i installed it before but there's nothing showing in the map and most of the times it does not indicate accurate results. then i installed it on another mobile to see if the same happens, yes it happen and more worse than the first installed makani app. so funny i wasted my time. uninstalled them both.

What’s new

- Bug Fixes and performance improvements.