He later captured a wider audience with such sites as Moviefone, MapQuest, TMZ and FanHouse.
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MapQuest offers driving directions and suggested routes for travelers, in some cases providing step-by-step, turn-by-turn detail.
Mapquest, for instance, uses crowdsourcing with 320, 000 registered mappers who are sending in thousands of tweaks every week.
And whatever you do, don't trust the travel time estimates offered by sites like Google Maps or Mapquest.
AOL-owned Mapquest has lost some business to Google Maps, but still has tens of millions of users every month.
Google Maps, Mapquest and the various GPS-based solutions are based on data ubiquity.
It would be in the same way they have Google Local, which is like Yelp, and Google Maps, which is like Mapquest.
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It then provides traffic data, forecasts and services in 35 countries to clients including Audi, BMW, Ford, MapQuest, Microsoft, Tele Atlas, Toyota and Vodafone.
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To make this a super easy process, just use an online directions website such as Google Maps or MapQuest and enter your start and finish addresses.
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With MapQuest's customized personalization, a user can place an icon where the wedding is to take place, print out a map and send it to friends and relatives.
The union also took care to mandate air travel for any road trip over 200 miles (the distance between Yankee Stadium and Fenway Park, according to Mapquest: 206 miles).
But most major road trip-planning tools, such as AAA, Google Maps and Mapquest, bypass these inspiring sights, assuming that most travellers only want the fastest route between points A and B.
In February, Highland Capital Partners, the venture investor behind Lycos and MapQuest.com Inc. sent executives from some of its portfolio companies on a four-day road trip to interview candidates at the University of Michigan, Carnegie Mellon and Cornell.
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Being able to prove a business concept in a hurry, even if the product isn't perfect, is especially attractive to investors, says Peter Bell, general partner with Highland Capital Partners, a venture firm in Lexington, Mass. that staked Digg, Mapquest and Ask Jeeves.
"While we're improving Maps, you can try alternatives by downloading map apps from the App Store like Bing, MapQuest and Waze, or use Google or Nokia maps by going to their websites and creating an icon on your home screen to their web app, " he added.
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