Friday, November 20. 2009

AOL Lays Off Workers, Puts Properties up Sale

AOL which will be sprung from Time Warner at the beginning of next month laid off 1/3 of its workers and reports indicate it's putting its ICQ messaging service and perhaps MapQuest up for sale. Among the possible buyer suggested for the mapping biz: Microsoft and Apple (though they did acquire Placebase recently). Some suggest dumping MapQuest may not be such a great idea if as CEO Tim Anderson suggested, local will be a focus. On the other hand, AOL did buy hyperlocal media company Patch and quickly swapped out Google Maps for OSM (APB coverage).

- GigaOm
- Barrons Blog
- Strategy Eye

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Thursday, November 5. 2009

AOL's Patch - Now with OSM (not MapQuest) Maps

AOL acquired hyperlocal news site Patch in the spring. This week it swapped out the previous mapping tool, Google Maps, for an OpenStreetMap-based solution. Business Insider suggests this is further evidence that AOL management is not that interested in the older properties like MapQuest.

- Business Insider

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Monday, November 2. 2009

MapQuest to get Intermap Terrain

A press release notes that Intermap "has licensed shaded terrain products which leverage the nationwide NEXTMap 3D mapping database to MapQuest, Inc. Additionally, Intermap will deliver shaded terrain products for Europe and the remainder of the world
for subsequent releases on the MapQuest.com consumer Web site and Platform products."

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Thursday, October 29. 2009

MapQuest Updates Look and Feel

After all the myriad announcements from Google about its changes to maps and mapping apps, it's nice to see MapQuest update its look and feel. Sources tell me the company behind the new look is Cartifact, who did a similar update for Yahoo! in 2007.

- MapQuest Blog

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Friday, October 9. 2009

MapQuest iPhone App

It's noted on the blog; it seems Mapquest is no longer issuing press releases on such things. That's interesting - and very Google-like! I wonder how it will impact coverage of their announcements? One data point: This blog post was from 10/6 and I just saw it (though I've been traveling).

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Friday, August 7. 2009

Mapquest Adds Premium Datasets

Yesterday MapQuest announced new premium data available for use with its MapQuest Platform Enterprise Edition.

The Premium Data Sets include:

US boundaries:
-Address Parcels, Cities, Counties, States, ZIP codes, Neighborhoods, School districts, Congressional Districts, and Core Based Statistical Areas (including MSA's).
US Census Data (2000):
-Broken down by Block, Group, Tract, ZCTA, City, County and State
-Over 400 Categories to choose
Premium Business Listings:
-13+ mil US and 2+ mil Canada Business Listings
US Public School Locations:
-Includes over 102,000 public schools.
* US Traffic:
Incident and Flow data

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