MapQuest, Leading Online Maps and Directions Service, Launches New Line of Printed Travel Publications.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Road Atlases, Specialty Guides and Laminated Maps, Extend the MapQuest Service Offline MapQuest Inc. today announced the launch of its MapQuest(R) Publishing product line, a new family of printed travel publications that will include road atlases, specialty guides, and laminated maps. MapQuest, which draws 41 million users each month to its online mapping service, is the leading online directory service.(1) "We are always looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ways to extend the popular MapQuest service beyond the desktop with services such as our suite of mobile mapping and directions services, and now a new line of printed maps that will make finding places of interest easier," said Tommy McGloin, senior vice president and general manager for MapQuest, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of America Online See AOL. , Inc. "With the addition of these new printed travel products, we continue to capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. new market opportunities and expand the reach of our brand and our high-quality maps and directions," said Walter Doyle, Vice President of MapQuest's new publishing unit. Among the new MapQuest printed travel products:
-- Six different versions of MapQuest's classic North American
road atlas, including large print/large scale and pocket-sized
editions.
-- The MapQuest(R) Road Atlas includes an exclusive index of
more than 15,000 interesting places.
-- Special interest travel guides that focus on the traveler's
personal interests, including:
-- The MapQuest(R) Right Place Guide to Colleges &
Universities combines a directory of 1,500 four-year
schools with color maps that pinpoint college locations.
-- The MapQuest(R) Auto Racing Track Guide and Atlas,
combines a directory of U.S. auto racing with a road atlas
that pinpoints the location of over 1,200 race tracks, and
includes information on track diagrams, dining, lodging,
and local attractions.
-- The MapQuest(R) Campground/RV Park Guide and Atlas
combines a directory of 3,700 RV parks and campgrounds
with location-spotted maps.
-- Customized maps
-- The MapQuest(R) Find It Maps for 20 cities and 38 states
offer handy locator guides to zoos, parks, museums, golf
courses, historic sites, spectator venues and more.
MapQuest's new publishing program even includes student
atlases for the classroom and family reference atlases for
the home.
MapQuest has a 38-year heritage of excellence in printed maps. With a staff of in-house cartographers Cartography is the study of map making and cartographers are map makers. Before 1400
"Many people may not be aware of the fact that MapQuest's history starts with a group of bona fide [Latin, In good faith.] Honest; genuine; actual; authentic; acting without the intention of defrauding. A bona fide purchaser is one who purchases property for a valuable consideration that is inducement for entering into a contract and without suspicion of being cartographers who produced printed maps for consumers across the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. before the Internet even existed - expertise that has remained with the company ever since," said Tommy McGloin. MapQuest Publishing plans to engage Time/Warner Retail, a division of Time Inc., to distribute the printed publications to mass market retail chains across the country. MapQuest, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of America Online, Inc. About MapQuest MapQuest helps people find places. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado and Mountville, Pennsylvania Mountville is a borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,444 at the 2000 census. Geography Mountville is located at (40.039797, -76.432433)GR1. , MapQuest offers Internet, Mobile, Business Solutions, and Published products worldwide. MapQuest.com, both the top mapping and directories site on the Web according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. comScore Media Metrix, served over 41 million users in April 2005. MapQuest also empowers more than 1,400 businesses with software solutions to location-enable Web and wireless applications, and is a leading publisher and provider of mapping content for other publishers and corporations, producing more than 1.5 billion pages of printed maps every year. MapQuest is a wholly owned subsidiary of America Online, Inc. About America Online, Inc. America Online, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Warner Inc. Based in Dulles, Virginia Dulles, Virginia is an unincorporated census-designated place located in Loudoun County, Virginia, part of the Washington Metropolitan Area. The headquarters of AOL, Orbital Sciences Corporation and ODIN technologies and the former headquarters of MCI Inc. are located in Dulles. , America Online is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies and e-commerce services. (1) comScore Media Metrix, April 2005 |
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