Mapquest?

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

I used to use Yahoo Maps when I first started getting internet directions.... Then later I switched to MSN Maps because i could sync it with my PDA and not have to deal with printing. Then Google Maps just became so easy to use after they fixed up a bunch of stupid problems with one way streets in SF when they first started. Ever since they incorporated hybrid maps or even street view I see no reason to use anything else. Capabilities like detours or dragging the route to suite what you want is very intuitive.

Yet every time our organization has some event and someone distributes maps, I almost always find them giving me a Mapquest print out. Is Mapquest still that popular and I'm the few who just think Google maps is THE WAY to go?

Shrug. It's not so much that I LOVE Google so much, it's just that they have it all bundled together. I can go to their site for practically anything. I don't need a separate site for A or B or C or whatever, and Mapquest just presents itself as another site I need to remember.

 

[zCypher]

With Google Maps I don't really see a use for Mapquest.

Edit: Woah...Warp speed Mr Sulu .. OP below

 

[destrekor]

what the hell is mapquest?
Is that like... some kind of knock off of Google Maps?


mapquest seems so long ago for me. Google Maps was the choice once I discovered it.

 

[zerocool84]

I use Google maps. Sure in the beginning all we had was Mapquest but Google maps is just so much better. People still use Mapquest cus they're use to it but Google maps is just so much damn better.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Mapquest seems to have the worst interface of the biggest map sites (MQ, Google, Bing, and Yahoo). I tried Bing Maps earlier today and quite liked it; they have a "Birds'-Eye View" that is really nice.

None of them, however, have added the highway overpass next to my work that was opened fully one year ago. Mapquest has an aerial view of the overpass under construction at their second-closest zoom level, but the map itself is not correct. I wonder if this overpass will ever make it to any of them? I remember Google took several months to restore the collapsed 35W bridge after it reopened, whereas Mapquest only took a few days.

 

[R Nilla]

:music:
Let?s hit up Yahoo Maps to find the dopest route.
I prefer Mapquest!
That?s a good one too.
Google Maps is the best!
True that! Double true!
:music:

 

[nageov3t]

I haven't used mapquest in years.

when I'm going on a long trip, I might print out google maps just in case, but I primarily rely on my gps... the only thing I use googlemaps for on a regular basis is for getting rough estimates of travel time.

 

[Leros]

I've been using Google Maps for the past 5 years or so.

 

[CRXican]

google maps fo sho, dumped mapquest long ago

 

[sutahz]

I use mapblast still. Never used mapquest. Use to use mapsonus.

 

[IronWing]

I just get in the car and drive. Things seem to work out.

 

[FoBoT]

i used it, back in 1999

maps.google.com >>>> map*

 

[Deeko]

I started with mapsonus. Then went mapquest. Now Google Maps.

 

[andylawcc]

Originally posted by: DLeRium
Yet every time our organization has some event and someone distributes maps, I almost always find them giving me a Mapquest print out. Is Mapquest still that popular and I'm the few who just think Google maps is THE WAY to go?

omg, and I thought I am the only one. maps.google.com > *

 

[BurnItDwn]

I used mapquest in the 90s, but haven't in a long time ...

I usually use Google maps though I am actually guilty of liking Microsoft's maps too ....

 

[MotionMan]

GPS in my car;
GPS in wife's car;
GPS on my iPhone.

The only thing I use online maps for is to get a general idea of how long the trip should take (or where some place I never heard of is located). When I do that, I use the search box (correct name?) in Safari which is set to Google, so, Google Maps.

I may also use StreetView to give me an idea of what the building looks like.

MotionMan

 

[TheVrolok]

GPS in my car, but I do usually print out MQ directions just in case.