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MapQuest Launches Advantage API 5.0
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All Points Blog shortly discuss MapQuest rolling out a new API with licensing choices. From the press release: "“It’s our next generation API, the foundation from which we will build our products and services," said Christian Dwyer, Director of Operations for MapQuest. “Designed to be flexible, the new platform translates into higher quality web and wireless applications, lower development costs, and faster time to market while providing all the same great routing, geocoding and feature sets that customers already use on MapQuest.com.”"
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Industry: MapQuest Reinvented
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DirectionsMag has an article about the position of MapQuest and its future. From the article: The seamless integration is helping MapQuest build brand awareness by capturing customer mindshare: see it on the web; see it on your phone; see it in your vehicle -- one company does it all. It is a move that goes beyond the flash of Google and tries to offer very utilitarian products to the public whose appetite for maps seems to be exploding.
Industry: MapQuest Offers API 2 comments
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geognerd writes "An article on CNET reports that MapQuest has made their open source mapping and routing API "OpenAPI" available to developers. The OpenAPI page has a link to a contest where the developer of the best MapQuest mashup wins US$1000 and a trip to the Where 2.0 conference."
Technology: MapQuest Now with Aerial Imagery
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The import cartography blog tells us about MapQuest adding aerial photography on their web mapping site. From All Points Blog: "There is no "hybrid" just now and as noted on Import Cartography, the data is from i-cubed. [...] I do like that the button says "aerial imagery" not satellite."
Technology: MapQuest #1 on Mobile Devices
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All Points Blog's short entry links to an equally short article where a panel found MapQuest is the preferred web location site on mobile devices. From the article: "Yahoo! beat Google, Napster, YouTube and MySpace. Mobile implementations of these brands were found by the panel to be tangibly inferior to the fixed (or full website) implementations. The User Panel awarded user experience ratings ranging form -12 to – 34 index points. Strategy Analytics also found that the MapQuest site is the most sought-after web location on mobile devices followed by Google."
Technology: New MapQuest Beta
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The Map Room shortly discuss the new MapQuest Beta and its blog. From the blog: "The beta’s upgrades are to MapQuest’s user interface, which was, let’s be honest, so last century; the features are outlined here. The problem is, these features have been offered by MapQuest’s competition for years — it’s October 2007, and only now is MapQuest allowing its users to input addresses in a single input box." All Points Blog also offers their own analysis of the new beta and links to a TechCrunch article. See also previous related stories below.
Technology: Google Maps Making Strides on MapQuest
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All Points Blog has an article detailing how Google is slowly gaining ground in the web mapping arena. From their summary : "This [Google Maps up 7%] throttled down MapQuest's lead over Google Maps significantly, falling from 429 percent more visits a year ago to just 126 percent more visits.
Still, MapQuest has more than 50% of mapping hits to Google's 22% and Yahoo's 13% (and dropping)."
For more information, as well as links to the actual article, head on over to All Points Blog.
Still, MapQuest has more than 50% of mapping hits to Google's 22% and Yahoo's 13% (and dropping)."
For more information, as well as links to the actual article, head on over to All Points Blog.
Technology: Launch of MapQuest Platform Free Edition
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After previous API efforts, MapQuest launched a significant update and Free Edition of their new MapQuest Platform. From the announcement: "We've taken nearly all the features of our platform and made them freely available to developers. We believe that Free Edition provides developers a comprehensive toolset and flexible APIs so they can build well, whatever they want. Developers can choose the programming language of their choice and the features they need to build the applications they want, the way they want." It's worthed to quickly look at everything they offer.
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