MapQuest

Below are 14 of the best links from or related to the mapping site MapQuest. (You might also be interested in these Bessed pages: Best GPS, Gas Mileage By Car)

1. MapQuest - Perhaps the leading source online for maps and driving directions to any place you might want to go in the United States as well as international locations. 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 driving 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 Wireless - Mobile Maps - Go here to download the latest MapQuest mobile apps that allow you to plot out your travels via your cell phone or even get voice-guided navigation similar to that of a GPS system. Apps work with iPhone, Blackberry and more. (wireless.mapquest.com)

4. Classic MapQuest - MapQuest changed designs a little while back, and some people prefer the old MapQuest, which you can find here. (classic.mapquest.com)

5. 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)

6. MapQuest Route Planner - Plan Trip with Multiple Stops - If you’re going a road trip with multiple stops along the way, you can plan the whole thing with this MapQuest features that allows you to input multiple addresses and then strings them together in the order you choose to give you driving directions the whole way. It also estimates driving time and mileage for each leg of the trip. (www.mapquest.com)

7. MapQuest Developer Network - MapQuest encourages developers to create map-related applications off the back of MapQuest maps, and here is info on the MapQuest API to do so. (developer.mapquest.com)

8. MapQuest Atlas - You don’t need to be going anywhere to use this — it’s simply an interactive world map that allows you to zero in on any country, city, and road in the world. (atlas.mapquest.com)

9. MapQuest History at Wikipedia - Online encyclopedia offers a short summary of MapQuest’s origins and features. (en.wikipedia.org)

10. MapQuest Blog - Not the most exciting reading, but the place to go if you are interested in knowing about new features as MapQuest rolls them out. (blog.mapquest.com)

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

12. Map Market Share: MapQuest Still on Top - October 29, 2007 article showed that despite the sophisticated competition from Yahoo Maps and Google Maps, MapQuest still had a ton more traffic than all the others combined. Things have changed since then, though, with Google Maps now on top. (manojjasra.blogspot.com)

13. Mapquest Directions: BEWARE! - Sometimes MapQuest gets it wrong, as B.L. Ochman found on this September 2006 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)

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

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