GPS for Dummies.pdf - Engineering Surveyor

Chapter 18: Navigating Web Road Maps295MapQuestMapQuest (www.mapquest.com) is the largest and most popular map Website on the Internet and provides street maps of North America and Europe.(You can also view less-detailed, worldwide, city, and country maps.) The sitewas first launched in 1996, and its corporate roots extend back to the 1960s,when its original parent company started making paper road maps that weredistributed by gas stations. America Online currently owns MapQuest, andthe site generates millions of maps each day and consistently ranks in top tenof the most-popular Web site lists.After you search for an address and display a map, as shown in Figure 18-3,you can print it, e-mail the map as an attachment, or download it to a PDAthat’s running AvantGo (www.avantgo.com) software.MapQuest can provide specially formatted maps and driving directions forwireless PDAs and cellphones with Internet connectivity. Check out the linkto Mobile MapQuest (look for Mobile) on the MapQuest home page for informationon using different types of wireless devices.Like all street map sites, MapQuest provides route maps (an example is shownin Figure 18-4) and driving directions. In addition to addresses, you can alsosearch for businesses by name or type even if you don’t know their address.Figure 18-3:An addresssearchMapQuestmap.