The General Manager of Mapquest describes their mission as to provide the best user experience to find where an establishment is, how to get there and what’s nearby or along the way. This seems to be the guiding principle behind the new look and features at Mapquest.com.
Last August, they beta-launched a new homepage which retained all user favorite features while revamping almost everything else with a crisper feel and look, and with a fresh logo. They are obviously driven by the desire to give better user experience on their site.
In case you haven’t tried, Mapquest allows you to get a map of businesses in any state as well as directions on how to get there, all by providing a few details about them on their homepage. The resulting map and directions provide great detail that only modern technology and information management can provide.
A new addition to the site is local information which provides news, movies, restaurants, reviews, and photos of local communities and places. It is obviously in response to the growing public demand for information and directions.
A Mapquest search for Starbucks in Chicago, Illinois gives you a map and showing and an exhaustive listing of Starbucks joins in the area with their exact location. Information like that saves you so much time in trying to find a place you want to go to. The local information supplements the information in another useful feature is which is Mapquest’s Yellow Pages. It lists restaurants, bars, movie theatres, boats, lawyers, advertising agencies, real estate, churches, libraries, government, CDs and tapes, camera stores, cellular phones, schools, colleges, tutors, adoption agencies, pets, day care.
It also lists doctors, dentists, and health clubs, home centers, contractors, furniture, banks, accountants, insurance, dating, hair salons, massage, department stores, florists, books, sporting goods, bicycle shops, recording centers, travel agents, hotels, and taxis. Another useful product is MapQuest® Navigator 5.0. The software which you can try for free turns any GPS-enabled phone into a personal voice-guided navigation device that not only brings you to your destination but also shows the best route in going there.
Using moving maps and voice-guided instructions, MapQuest Navigator 5.0 gives you a high-quality GPS car navigation service on your own phone without having to buy an expensive navigation equipment for your car.
With Mapquest, more and more people get to enjoy traveling from one place to another at lesser cost both in terms of money and time. With more information available, trips become less of a challenge and more of an enjoyable experience. That is just one of the benefits of technology now available to us.
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Pretty cool if it oulines quite a specific information!
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