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MapQuest is a map publisher and a free online Web mapping service owned by AOL. A map is a visual representation of an area—a symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of that space such as objects, Regions, and Themes Web mapping is the process of designing implementing generating and delivering maps on the World Wide Web. The company was founded in 1967 as Cartographic Services, a division of R.R. Donnelley & Sons in Chicago, Illinois. RR Donnelley is a Fortune 500 company based in Chicago Illinois, that provides print and related services Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. It moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1969. Lancaster is a city in the South Central part of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and is the County seat of Lancaster County. 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. The City and County of Denver (pronounced /ˈdɛnvɚ/ is the Capital and the most populous city of Colorado, in the United States [1]

Donnelley began making maps with computers in the mid-1980s to generate maps for customers. A map is a visual representation of an area—a symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of that space such as objects, Regions, and Themes Much of that code was adapted for use on the Internet to create the MapQuest web service in 1996. The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks 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. Research In Motion Limited ( RIM) () is a Wireless device company best known as the developer of the BlackBerry handheld Communication Nextel Communications, styled NEXTEL, (Former NASDAQ: NXTL) now known as the Sprint Nextel Corporation, was a telecommunications firm based Basic concept of GPS operation A GPS receiver calculates its position by carefully timing the signals sent by the constellation of GPS Satellites high above the Earth 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. Sprint Nextel Corporation ( is a Telecommunications company based in Overland Park, Kansas. Boost Mobile is an Irvine CA -based brand of Mobile phone service launched in Australia (Over Optus) in 2000 and in New Zealand

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 their driving routes on MapQuest. General Motors Corporation ( GM) ( is a multinational automobile manufacturer founded in 1908 and headquartered in the United States. OnStar Corporation is a subsidiary of General Motors that provides subscription-based communications, in-vehicle security turn-by-turn navigation and remote 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.

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Services and programs

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. The term Yellow Pages refers to a Telephone directory of Businesses categorized according to the product or service provided 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. MSN (The M icro' s' oft N etwork is a collection of Internet services provided by Microsoft. Google Inc is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online Google Maps (for a time named Google Local) is a free Web mapping service application and technology provided by Google that powers many map-based services Live Search Maps (previously Windows Live Maps and Windows Live Local) is a Web mapping service provided as a part of Microsoft 's Windows

Publishing

In October of 2006, MapQuest sold off its publishing division (which published traditional maps in paper format) to concentrate on its online and mobile services.

Popular culture

Mapquest is featured in the music video for the song "Triple Trouble" by the Beastie Boys.

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External links

To add MapQuest links to Wikipedia articles, see use of MapQuest maps in Wikipedia


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