Reading Time: < 1 minAs their lead over Google Maps continues to dwindle, MapQuest has rolled out a few more new features. By “new”, I mean new to MapQuest, not new to online mapping. In this case, the new feature is draggable route changing. This is almost identical to the feature that Google released about 16 months ago. It’s […]
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MapQuest 4 Mobile now available for Blackberry
Reading Time: < 1 minMapQuest has just launched the beta of MapQuest 4 Mobile for a few Blackberry handsets. It looks very much like all of MapQuest’s other recent launches — very nice, but nothing new. Some of the features include things like “maps” (including aerial imagery), “directions”, “search”, “traffic” and “find me” (to track you along a route. […]
MapQuest is trying hard to hold on
Reading Time: < 1 minDespite being far behind in features, MapQuest has been remarkably resilient in holding onto their market share. Google Maps continues to catch up, but is still below half of the market share that MapQuest is holding. However, MapQuest continues to try to catch back up. Today they’ve released a new beta version of their site, […]
MapQuest keeps trying, but still can’t get it quite right
Reading Time: 2 minI’ve been quick to give MapQuest credit for effort, as they’re really trying to catch up the big boys now that their lead is quickly shrinking. Yesterday they introduced live traffic. It looks very similar to the traffic info on Google Maps, but with more detailed information. The screenshots look pretty nice: Here’s the problem […]
MapQuest is trying to catch back up
Reading Time: < 1 minIt’ll be a hard road (if not impossible) for MapQuest to try to catch up to Google, Yahoo and Microsoft in the maps race, but they’re doing their best. I guess I should say what I mean by “catch up”. In terms of usage, they still have a remarkable lead. In January they still had […]