Online Maps: Pointing In The Wrong Direction?
20 September 2002 - 12:00pm
Will online map services such as Mapquest replace paper maps?
"MapQuest is just one of a bevy of free map services on the Web, including Yahoo Maps, MapBlast, Lycos Maps, Maps.com, Expedia Maps and MSN MapPoint... MapQuest locates addresses through a process known as geocoding, which assigns a latitude-longitude coordinate to an address so it can be displayed on a map or used in a spatial search.There are three basic methods of calculating a geocode: address interpolation, intersection matching and ZIP codes."
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Route of Problem: Bad Online Maps
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Wired, September 16, 2002
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