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     • MapQuest (stylized as mapquest) is an American free online web mapping service. It was launched in 1996 as the first commercial web mapping service.
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   What happened to MapQuest?

   • MapQuest (stylized as mapquest) is an American free online web mapping service. It was launched in 1996 as the first commercial web mapping service. MapQuest vies for market share with competitors such as Apple Maps, Here and Google Maps. The former MapQuest logo was phased out as part of a website redesign unveiled on July 14, 2010.

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   When did MapQuest become a web service?

   • Much of the code was adapted for use on the Internet to create the MapQuest web service in 1996. MapQuest's original services were mapping (referred to as "Interactive Atlas") and driving directions (called "TripQuest").

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   Does MapQuest still exist?

   • A lot has changed in the online mapping world since the mid-1990s, including the rise of fierce competitors like Google Maps, Waze, Apple Maps and more. But MapQuest is still going strong as a website, a mobile app launched in 2012, and a licenser of its core technology.

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   When did MapQuest start?

   • In the mid-1980s, R.R. Donnelley & Sons began generating maps and routes for customers, with cooperation by Barry Glick, a University at Buffalo Ph.D. In 1994, it was spun off as GeoSystems Global Corporation. Much of the code was adapted for use on the Internet to create the MapQuest web service in 1996.

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   How many people use MapQuest a month?

   • The website averages 20 to 30 million unique users every month, which makes it the third most-trafficked mapping website after Google Maps and Waze (also owned by Google), according to John Chipouras, general manager of MapQuest. Next, let's look at the basic underlying technology that makes a mapping tool like MapQuest work.

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   Is MapQuest a verb?

   • MapQuest created the world's first online mapping and turn-by-turn directions service. It launched back in 1996, almost a decade before Google Maps, and was once so popular and ubiquitous that its brand name was used as a verb. As in, "I don't know how to get to Phil's house. Can you MapQuest the directions and print them out?"

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   MapQuest (stylized as mapquest) is an American free online web mapping service. It was launched in 1996 as the first commercial web mapping service. [1] MapQuest vies for market share with competitors such as Apple Maps, Here and Google Maps. [2] [3]

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   Sep 10, 2024 · MapQuest (stylized as mapquest) is an American free online web mapping service. It was launched in 1996 as the first commercial web mapping service. MapQuest vies for market share with competitors such as Apple Maps, Here and Google Maps.

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   I tried to make matters clear and pleaded with the powers that be: MapQuest was a site built on map data but it didn’t make maps. In fact 98% of the map data was licensed from third parties. I knew MapQuest had to build a moat around the product otherwise someone else could swoop in, license the same data and build a better product.

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   Then in 1996, when the internet was still in its infancy and Netscape was the most popular web browser, the MapQuest name was resurrected as the world's first online mapping website, MapQuest.com [source: Harlan].

7. www.tandfonline.com › doi › fullThe rise and fall of MapQuest: Internet Histories: Vol 6 , No ...

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   Apr 1, 2022 · It charts the emergence and rapid rise of MapQuest as a popular early provider of online maps – detailing notable innovations, key developments, and successive ownership changes, and the significance of these for MapQuest – and it documents its equally rapid fall.

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   MapQuest (stylized as mapquest) is an American free online web mapping service. It was launched in 1996 as the first commercial web mapping service. MapQuest vies for market share with competitors such as Google Maps and Here.

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    Oct 6, 2023 · What happened to MapQuest, a free online mapping service based in the United States? One of the first commercial web mapping services, MapQuest was established in 1996 and it used satellite photos and maps to give users accurate location data.