[4] Centaline had intended to make money from the website using banner advertising, expecting revenue of $1–1.5 million a year.

The data for the Community Map is obtained from the Survey and Mapping Office of the Hong Kong Government's Lands Department, and it is jointly built by Cable & Wireless HKT's Telecom Directories Limited (TDL), Centaline Property Agency, and a Canadian software house.

However, the reviewer lamented that the map lacked transport information and displayed only "the income and educational levels of the residents in [an] area", which was probably not useful to a visitor of Hong Kong.

[9] Another review in the South China Morning Post that month noted that Centamap's website had a "no-frills" design, worked better in Netscape Navigator than Internet Explorer, and had less features than TDL's HKCityMap, which used the same Community Map data.

[5] By July 2001, Centamap had added links to government air pollution indexes across the city, the meteorological department's weather predictions and the government department responsible for selling aerial photographs; a review in the International Herald Tribune commented that the site was a good example of how online maps can provide information that is impossible to present on printed maps.