MapQuest has stopped Google Maps' market share gains for the time being. But Google Maps increasingly benefits from Google search results. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Whether you prefer Google Maps or Waze, there is a wide range of apps that provide driving directions these days -- and they will often give real-time traffic and accident updates, alternative ...

Mapquest was there in 1996, almost a decade before modern-day Google Maps. It is the world’s first online mapping and turn-by-turn direction service. The name Mapquest was synonymous with finding ...

Can developers help MapQuest regain its luster? Trailing Google Maps, Mapquest is courting developers by rebuilding its Developer Network and introducing two products to make developing applications ...

DENVERDENVER — MapQuest is diving farther into crowdsourcing, with online maps edited by the people, for the people. The AOL Inc. subsidiary is launching a separate website Thursday where people can ...

MapQuest on Monday took the wraps off a new application for iPhone users designed as an alternative to the built-in Google Maps software and billed as a "leap forward in how people interact with maps, ...

MapQuest has done an impressive job of building a useful array of driving-related tools onto its core mapping program. The site can guide you to your destination, help you avoid traffic entanglements, ...

Apple has faced heaps of criticism over its decision to ditch Google as the data source for iOS 6's rebuilt Maps app. Though it looks great and adds turn-by-turn driving directions, users have been ...

Harnessing the wealth of OpenStreetMap data, MapQuest has launched an "Open" version of itself, allowing anyone to add restaurants, fix errors, define the best directions that real drivers know, and ...

If you're not a fan of the recently renamed Gulf of America, you can call it whatever you want courtesy of MapQuest. The online navigation company appears to be poking fun at President Donald Trump's ...

Google Inc.’s Maps application is making headway against the No. 1 map Web site, MapQuest, according to an analyst from Hitwise Pty., which examines Internet usage data. A year ago, the number of U.S.