MapQuest website ranks neighborhoods, amenities

MapQuest is launching a website that ranks thousands of neighborhoods on quality-of-life measures including restaurants and bars, shopping and how easy it is to get around on foot.

New MapQuest site shows US maps for, by the people

MapQuest is diving farther into crowdsourcing, with online maps edited by the people, for the people.

MapQuest beta version has a cleaner, simpler look

MapQuest was long the leader among websites giving people online directions, but Google Maps surpassed it in 2008.

Click and go: Surf the Web before you hit the highway

The open road is calling — and it’s saying be prepared for traffic jams, wacky weather and gas prices that will empty your wallet and take your breath away.

There are a lot of iPhone apps. Thousands of them. And a good percentage are location-aware. They function with the help of cellular tower spotting or GPS to give users real-world perspective on what surrounds them.

We at MapQuest just launched a new Local service. It pulls in local content from around the web into one place and is looking for sites with localized information to add more content.

Before Akshay Dodeja stopped to fill up the gas tank of his Acura Integra, the 22-year-old Portland, Ore., computer-engineering student checked his cellphone. There, he found the cheapest gas from a list of 10 stations in the area.

It's flu season, and you're feeling woozy. Have you caught that thing that's going around? To find out, head over to Who is Sick?, a Google map-based tool that lets users report their symptoms. Plug in your zip code to find nodes of contagion near you.

Users call (347) 328-4667 from a cell phone and begin explaining where they want to go, either an address or an intersection. The voice recognition service discerns your intended location and asks where you're coming from.

The article implies that James Kim used directions from Google maps, which lead him and his family down a road, which in the winter, is impassable.

SLOUCHED IN AN undecorated cubicle in Lebanon, New Hampshire, sleeves rolled up on his button-down shirt, David Williams is looking for one-way streets. It's frustrating work. Williams stares at his email inbox: a solid wall of news alerts from Yahoo and Google.

Includes draggable maps and aerial photographs as well as travel directions.

The art, science, and history of mapping and why MapQuest isn't always right.

People are not superfluous yet! "To check those sorts of details, Navteq relies on hundreds of Geographic Analysts... They spend about half their time driving around gathering data about every road, large and small, in their designated region of the country."

The fallibility of online driving directions services.