MapQuest

Ten of the best sites or pages related to MapQuest. Know of another site that should be listed here? Leave your suggestion at the bottom of this page.

1. MapQuest - Perhaps the leading source online for maps and driving directions to any place you might want to go in the United States and Canada. Enter in your starting address, the address you want to get to, and MapQuest shows you the step-by-step route, plus mileage and estimated driving time. You can also search for directions to a business if you know the name and city. Get maps by latitude and longitude, too. (www.mapquest.com)

2. MapQuest Find Me - MapQuest for mobile phones not only allows you to get directions, but also shows you are where you are if you are lost, and also allows you to send messages to other cell users showing them where you’re located. (findme.mapquest.com)

3. Mapquest Directions: BEWARE! - Sometimes MapQuest gets it wrong, as B.L. Ochman found on this trip: “Everything was fine until the last leg of the trip when Mapquest sent us down a dirt road that was ended by a barrier in the middle of a forest.” (www.whatsnextblog.com)

4. MapQuest Gas Prices - Enter in your address and MapQuest will show you the 10 lowest gas prices in your area, including how far away each gas station is (and a map to it, of course.) (gasprices.mapquest.com)

5. Turn, Turn, Turn - August, 2006 Boston Globe column by Charles P. Pierce complains that Mapquest sometimes overnavigates, with repeated instructions for turns that last only 0.1 miles. (www.boston.com)

6. Map Market Share: MapQuest Still on Top - October 29, 2007 article shows that despite the sophisticated competition from Yahoo Maps and Google Maps, MapQuest still gets a ton more traffic than all the others combined. (manojjasra.blogspot.com)

7. Quick Mileage Calculator Using MapQuest - Here’s a quick shortcut if you want to find the distance in miles between two points. Put in address or just zip code of each destination and this site feeds it to MapQuest to get a mileage figure. (Make sure you take out all of the pre-set values currently on the page.) (www.ctlr.msu.edu)

8. MapQuest at Wikipedia - Short summary of MapQuest’s origins and features. (en.wikipedia.org)

9. MapQuest International Maps - Get maps of major cities in Mexico as well as the countries of South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, etc. Maps only, no driving directions with world maps. (www.mapquest.com)

10. MapQuest UK - Need maps and driving directions in the United Kingdom? Here’s the MapQuest for you. (www.mapquest.co.uk)

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