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   February 6, 1996; 28 years ago (1996-02-06) Current status. Active. 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]

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

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   Apr 1, 2022 · Abstract. This article builds an historical account of the rise and fall of US mapping firm MapQuest. 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 ...

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   MapQuest created the world's first online mapping and turn-by-turn directions service. HowStuffWorks. 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 ...

4. www.techspot.com › article › 2841-mapquestWhat Ever Happened to MapQuest? - TechSpot

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   May 13, 2024 · With BlackBerry remaining the most popular smartphone in the U.S., it looked like MapQuest was there to stay, at least as a competitor. In No Map's Land The year 2010 marked a shift in the mobile ...

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6. www.researchgate.net › publication › 359680228_TheThe rise and fall of MapQuest - ResearchGate

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   Apr 1, 2022 · Abstract. This article builds an historical account of the rise and fall of US mapping firm MapQuest. It charts the emergence and rapid rise of MapQuest as a popular early provider of online maps ...

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   Sep 10, 2024 · Launched. February 6, 1996;28 years ago (1996-02-06) Current status. Active. 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.

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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.

   MapQuest - Wikipedia

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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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   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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   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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   Why is MapQuest important?

   • This account of MapQuest is important in two ways. First, while MapQuest is a significant firm in the history of contemporary digital mapping, particularly as a pioneer of online distributed mapping, the firm’s history and its contribution to digital mapping remains under-represented in internet histories scholarship.

   The rise and fall of MapQuest - Taylor & Francis Online

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9. www.wired.com › 2019 › 10Dead Media Beat: Mapquest - WIRED

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   Oct 9, 2019 · The beginning of Mapquest’s long, slow decline effectively started after Google’s acquisition of Australian navigation company Where 2 Technologies in 2004. That became the foundation of ...