Mapping sites showdown! Part 3: Mapquest
Hello and welcome to my review of the mapping site Mapquest This review will be broken down into the positives and the negatives of the mapping site and will compare the performance of the routing engines at the end of this review. First we shall take a look at the positives of the mapping site. Mapquest uses NAVTEQ for their mapping data. First topic: interface: Mapquest has recently revamped their user interface and made it more like the other mapping sites. It used to have a very different interface and it was sort of confusing for some users. It now works like Bing Maps or Google Maps. This seemed to be a positive move for them, as the complaints on “how do I do this” dropped on their forums and facebook page. I like the new mapquest interface so far. It has made things much easier to do. Another thing I like is the quick POI's (points of interest) on the top to easily located hotels, gas, food, etc. I also like the “send to” tools, as it has several options to easily...