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MapQuest, Google Maps Now Get Along With Garmin

Whether you use Google Maps or are sticking to traditional favorite MapQuest, Garmin's got you covered.  The maker of navigation devices has struck deals that allow for "Send to Garmin" options from both websites.

Google Maps Getting More and More Popular

According to Hitwise, Google Maps is growing in popularity rapidly. While they have a long way to go to overtake the leader in the maps sector, Google Maps is the only major map site to see an increase in traffic over the last year.

Google Maps Gaining On MapQuest

Like Google, MapQuest entered the vernacular as a verb. As in: I mapquested it. The AOL-owned online map service is still the top site of its kind, but that position is threatened by Google Maps, which is, um, en route to surpass it.Caution: More bad puns likely.

AOL Brightens Up Its Desktop

A new version of AOL Desktop bundles tabbed browsing, multiple email account management, and an "App Map" of all open application windows within the environment.

MapQuest For Mobile Web Gets Updates

Despite Google’s dominance in many fields, it trails far behind MapQuest when it comes to that AOL-owned site’s specialty.  Now, upgrades to a mobile version of MapQuest may ensure that Google won’t get any closer.

Google Maps Adapts To Rush Hour Traffic

Online mapping services are great, but they still have various faults and quirks - an over-reliance on u-turns, a tendency to place buildings on the wrong side of the street, and so on.  Now Google is trying to address one issue by making its drivetime estimates more accurate.

AOL Launches Travel Guides

AOL has launched the beta version of its AOL Travel Guides, an online service that offers information on 1,900 locations and more than 100,000 hotels.

MapQuest Launches ActionScript API

MapQuest has launched a new, Adobe ActionScript API that will allow developers to use a robust toolset with the benefits of ActionScript 3.0.

MapQuest Upgrades Mobile Service

Don't like to get lost? MapQuest has announced upgrades to its "Send to Cell' service that will allows users to create driving directions and maps at their PC and send them to any Web-enabled cell phone.

MapQuest Has Gas. Prices, That Is

Online driving direction and map finder MapQuest has added tools to help people find per-gallon prices that do the least damage to one's bank account.