Tuesday, August 26. 2008

MapQuest Beta

Continuing on its "too little, too late" strategy, MapQuest has tinkered with its home page. The team has updated the maps which now appear on the front page! Further the interface looks more, well, Google Maps-like with Traffic and Gas Buddy in buttons top right. Forms have been updated so you can toggle between a "key in" and "paste in" form. (Not sure why there can't be one for both...)

Bottom line: if you love MapQuest, these enhancements will be nice, if you use something else, these enhancements don't matter at all. For now the enhancements are on the "beta" site, but you can toggle back to the old one for comparison. Full details on the MapQuest blog.

Other reviews: Webware, Mashable

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The first thing I notice is the default for address input is still multi-field. I guess they haven't heard of neat a little computer innovation called "cut-and-paste." It's downhill from there as far as I'm concerned. "Too little, too late" is too true.

#1 Google Maps User on 2008-08-26 08:38 (Reply)

I just found this, but there's a link under the address boxes that says "Switch to copy/paste addresses". Hard to see, but that switches it to a single box to copy-paste and address in.

#1.1 As long as it gets me there on 2008-08-26 09:41 (Reply)

Mapquest "Beta" has been around for at least a year...

#2 Anonymous on 2008-08-29 08:28 (Reply)

Not to emntion, you can barely zoom in on the areials with mapquest...

#3 Mike on 2008-08-29 11:51 (Reply)

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