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. In this piece, we’ll show you how to get driving ...

MapQuest 4 Mobile can give you an interactive map of your current location (leveraging built-in GPS if your BlackBerry has it) and, of course, driving directions.

The same is true for “driving directions,” “map,” and “directions,” as well as variations on the Mapquest brand name, including “mapquest driving directions” and “map quest.” ...

Remember MapQuest? To me, that name invokes happy memories of printed-out directions in 2006 and playing navigator for my parents from the backseat.

And even if they do go to the Web for directions, they’ll often just type the address into Google and get directions from the upstart Google Maps. Whither Mapquest?

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 ...

MapQuest, once the nation’s go-to source for online driving directions, is plotting a comeback with a battle plan that includes creating original content, adding more local data to search ...

Of Mapquest and MapBlast!, we prefer the latter. In our highly subjective experience, it seems to offer more accurate and easy to follow driving directions than Mapquest.

MapQuest also lets you get driving directions to almost anywhere. MapQuest is perhaps the best site devoted entirely to mapping, but there are other good alternatives out there.

One of the Internet's best and most popular uses is to find maps and driving directions. Several sites are available to help with these needs, and can save countless hours and phone calls trying t… ...