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Tuesday, April 8. 2008

AOL Sues NavQuest Over Similarity to MapQuest

AOL is suing the Boca Raton-based NavQuest that offer boaters tools to plot a course. Says AOL: the site is "confusingly similar" in name and function. NavQuest launched in Feb 2007. Per the Palm Beach Post, here's what it offers:
Boaters enter their starting and ending points. The marine navigation tool calculates trip time, distance and fuel consumption, and downloads the needed charts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The site also offers weather, tide and marina information.


NavQuest's founder Ken Litvack tried to trademark NavQuest in 2006; AOL opposed the application. But clearly, AOL is no longer waiting around for the trademark folks to finish the processing.
Posted by Adena Schutzberg in MapQuest at 12:57 | Comments (13)

Monday, April 7. 2008

Un-advertising for Mapping Site

This statement was included in a news story about an open house at an Alabama glass blowing establishment. It followed detailed driving instructions.
Orbix assistants do not recommend visitors try to use MapQuest, an Internet mapping service, because it takes drivers on a longer, more circuitous route.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in MapQuest at 06:00 | Comments (3)

Friday, April 4. 2008

Quote of the Week

GPS
PC World has a reasonably useful article on How to Buy a GPS. I give the author much credit for noting at the outset that if you don't go anywhere, you should go cheap, but if you travel to many different places regularly (salesperson) go big.

Which brings me to the quote - it relates to the timeliness of map updates for different units.

If you expect to use your GPS device primarily to find convenient java shops during occasional travels--or retail outlets that you've never visited before--working with less-than-up-to-the-minute mapping data is probably okay. And you can always turn to MapQuest for more-recent information.

No disrespect to MapQuest; I just find it amusing that the author assumes MapQuest (or likely any online site) will necessarily have more up-to-date information.
Posted by Adena Schutzberg in GPS, MapQuest, GNSS, Satellite Navigation at 07:28 | Comments (0)

Wednesday, March 19. 2008

MapQuest Offers Inrix Traffic

Traffic
Mapquest is slowly adding on the missing pieces to its online mapping service.

- MapQuest Blog
Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Traffic, MapQuest at 06:00 | Comments (0)

Sunday, March 9. 2008

MapQuest Offers Free API


MapQuest announced on their blog this morning that they are offering developers the "MapQuest Platform: Free Edition." According to the announcement, "We're giving developers greater flexibility and choice by enabling them to develop in a variety of programming languages and environments, they can even mix and match: Java, C++, .NET, JavaScript, AS3 (Adobe ActionScript: Flash, Flex, AIR), and our newest API: FUJAX (Flash Under JavaScript and XML), which allows developers to write in JavaScript, yet leverage the power of Flash."

Key aspects of the API include:

  1. Aerial imagery and hybrid views
  2. Smooth zoon
  3. Globe view
  4. Smart Rollovers
  5. Smart panning or "flickable" viewing
  6. "Decluttering" of POIs
  7. Unlimited Worldwide maps
  8. Unlimited geocoding: single, batch, reverse
  9. Routing
  10. Tools to upload map updates.
MapQuest says that starting with the 5.0 release of their APIs that they've rebuilt it from the ground up. Their current version is 5.2 and version 5.3 is in beta (available now for download)

Posted by Joe Francica in MapQuest at 09:33 | Comments (2)

Wednesday, February 6. 2008

Migration News 2008

ESRI Geospatial Business
When I was a newbie in the industry the "big news" was a utility switching from one vendor to another. Smallworld wins were a big deal, for example and press announcements the way to tell the story. Now the turf is the Web and Microsoft is touting, via blog (and one PR), switching Yellowbook off MapQuest onto Virtual Earth and Windermere's real estate tool Property Point 3 moving off an ESRI/Google solution onto the platform. I'm guessing, but don't really know that the dollars were much bigger back in the "utility flip" days.

- Virtual Earth/Live Maps Blog
Posted by Adena Schutzberg in ESRI, Microsoft, MapQuest, Geospatial Business at 07:03 | Comments (0)
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