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MapQuest
MapQuest is a map publisher and a free online Web mapping service owned by
AOL. The company was founded in 1967 as Cartographic Services, a division of
R.R. Donnelley & Sons in Chicago, Illinois. It moved to Lancaster,
Pennsylvania in 1969. When it became an independent company in 1994, it was
renamed GeoSystems Global Corporation. MapQuest was acquired in 2000 by
America Online, Inc.
Donnelley began making maps with computers in the mid-1980's to generate
maps for customers. Much of that code was adapted for use on the Internet to
create the MapQuest web service in 1996. In 1999 the company was renamed to
MapQuest to leverage the popularity of its online brand. For a while,
MapQuest included satellite images, but later removed them. In September
2006, the web site once again began serving satellite imagery in a new beta
program.
In 2004, MapQuest, uLocate, Research in Motion and Nextel 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 or depart from a
designated area. In 2005 the service became available on Sprint and in 2006,
Boost Mobile.
In July 2006, MapQuest created a beta version of a new feature 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.
In April 2007, MapQuest announced a partnership with General Motors' OnStar
that will allow OnStar subscribers to plan their driving routes on
MapQuest.com and send their destination right to OnStar's Turn-by-Turn
Navigation service. The OnStar Web Destination Entry pilot program will
begin the summer of 2007 with a select group of OnStar subscribers.
Services and programs
MapQuest provides some extent of street-level detail and/or driving
directions for a variety of countries, including:
* Argentina
* Austria
* Belgium
* Brazil
* Canada
* Denmark
* Dominican Republic
* France
* Germany
* Haiti
* Italy
* Luxembourg
* Mexico
* Netherlands
* Spain
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* United Arab Emirates
* United Kingdom
* United States
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, Windows Live Local and Yahoo! Maps.
Publishing
In October of 2006, MapQuest sold off its publishing division (which
published traditional maps in paper format) to concentrate on its online and
mobile services.
Popular culture
* In the SNL Digital Short Lazy Sunday starring Andy Samberg and Chris
Parnell, the two comedians rap about a trip to the movies and discuss
MapQuest and Yahoo! Maps, before concluding "Google Maps is the best."
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