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MapQuest Enhances its TripQuest Driving Directions Service, Providing Most Accurate and Detailed
Internet World Booths #3304-28 & #101-12 -- MapQuest Publishing Group, a business unit of GeoSystems Global Corp. and the leading provider of interactive mapping on the Internet, today unveiled the most detailed and reliable door-to-door driving directions available online. TripQuest(TM), the popular city-to-city routing service on the MapQuest(TM) (https://www.mapquest.com) Web site, has been enhanced to generate turn- by-turn narratives for traveling from one address to another within US cities and between many regional metropolitan areas. MapQuest driving directions, which are free, are accompanied by total mileage, estimated travel time and interactive MapQuest maps for exploring origin and destination points.
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..... Click the link for more information. Map Database from Navigation Technologies Corp. (NavTech), the premier provider of navigable street-level map databases, MapQuest has complemented its proprietary city-to-city database to offer consumers a way to route between virtually any two places in the country. When a door-to-door route cannot be generated, MapQuest automatically offers a generalized route by defaulting to city-to-city directions. The NavTech database also contains the largest coverage areas for door-to-door routing, enabling MapQuest to generate directions for a higher percentage of the US than any other Web-based routing service. In addition, NavTech data takes account of road characteristics such as turn restrictions, street closures, construction areas, and one-way streets, providing users with unparalleled route accuracy.
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"When MapQuest launched in February 1996, it was the first service on the Internet to provide consumers with free, city-to-city driving directions," said Perry Evans, president of MapQuest Publishing Group. "Now, using the high-quality routing data provided by the NavTech Navigable Map Database, we can provide our users with the fastest, most efficient way to navigate between specific addresses across the country. Whether traveling from coast-to-coast or to a holiday party across town, Web consumers can have confidence in MapQuest for charting their way."
Unlike other mapping services that provide door-to-door directions, MapQuest has introduced a breakthrough ActiveX(TM) applet that offers highlighted interactive route maps, a personalized route planner Route planner is a tool for finding optimal routes (usually for traveling by car) from one place to another. They can typically provide a list of places one will pass by, with crossroads and directions that must be followed, road numbers, distances, etc.
..... Click the link for more information., advanced map navigation and customization options, and CD-ROM-like functionality.
MapQuest has also added driving directions to its range of business service offerings, providing access to its routing technology to such partners as BigBook (https://www.bigbook.com) and InfoSpace (https://www.infospace.com), two leading online directory services. For customers, MapQuest TripConnect is the service that provides Web sites with city-to-city routing and TripConnect Plus offers Web sites the enhanced door-to-door directions.
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