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Map Quest | MapsQuest | Map
Quest.com | MapQuest.Canada | Map Quest.ca | www map quest . com
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Other Misspelled Searches:
MapQwst | MapQest | Mapps | wwwMaps
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 MapQuest
is a free Web Map Server, owned by AOL. The
map creation software was originally developed by GeoSystems to
generate maps for customers.
That code was adapted for use on
the internet to create the web service. Later the company was
renamed to MapQuest to leverage the brand popularity. For a
while, MapQuest had satellite images, but later removed them.
According to Hitwise, Google Maps
edged past MapQuest to become the online mapping tool with the
most number of visits. One interesting stat from Heather Dougherty
at Hitwise is that although Google Maps had more visits than
MapQuest, “the average visit time on MapQuest remained higher at 10
minutes and 51 seconds as compared to 7 minutes and 24 seconds on
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In 2005, MapQuest, Research in Motion and
Sprint launched MapQuest Find ME, a buddy-finder service that works on
GPS-enabled mobile phones. MapQuest Find Me lets users automatically find
their location, access maps and directions and locate nearby points of
interest including airports, hotels, restaurants, banks and ATMs. Users also
have the ability to set up alerts to be notified when network members arrive
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In July 2006, MapQuest created a BETA version
in which users could now "Build Your Route" by adding additional stops,
reorder one's route (and the stops along the way), and avoid any turn or
road en route.
MapQuest provides some extent of
street-level detail and/or driving directions for a variety of countries.
You can see if they include your country from a pull down menu on their home
page.
A MapQuest-branded Yellow Pages service is provided by AOL. Other services
include a world atlas, and MapQuest Mobile. MapQuest Mobile is a service
providing maps and driving directions to any Web-enabled mobile phone or
personal digital assistant. BlackBerry World Version, MSN, Yahoo! and Google
have competing services as followed Google Maps, Windows Live Local.
A MapQuest-branded
Yellow Pages service is provided by AOL. Other services include a world
atlas, and MapQuest Mobile. MapQuest Mobile is a service providing maps and
driving directions to any Web-enabled Mobile phone or Personal Digital
Assistant. MSN, Yahoo! and Google have competing services as followed Google
Maps, MSN Maps and Yahoo! Maps.
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Sources: Wikipedia
Canada Map and Travel Info |
Map Quest | MapsQuest | Map
Quest.com | MapQuest.Canada | Map Quest.ca | www map quest . com
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