 ww.MapQuest.com
- MapQuest is a map publisher and a free
online Web mapping service owned by AOL.
MapQuest
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.
Company headquarters are in Lancaster and Denver, Colorado.
MapQuest, Inc. and Garmin International Inc.,
a unit of Garmin Ltd. (Nasdaq: GRMN), the global leader in
satellite navigation, today announced plans for the upcoming
launch of a new feature that will allow consumers to send
trip planning results from MapQuest.com, the #1 online
mapping website,* directly to their Garmin personal
navigation device.
MapQuest and INRIX® today announced a
collaboration that will allow consumers and businesses to access
the full breadth of INRIX traffic information across multiple
MapQuest® business units including MapQuest.com, MapQuest
Wireless, and MapQuest Platform Services
Donnelley began making maps with computers in the mid-1980s 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 tdheir
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.
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. MSN, Yahoo! and Google have competing services as
followed Google Maps, Windows Live Local.
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