Behind MapQuest

Wired Magazine interviews Dave Schafer, general manager of MapQuest.

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February 9, 2003, 5:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"Going online for directions has become part of everyday life. Industry leader MapQuest.com serves about 300 million maps a month to 23 million users. But as anyone whos been steered wrong by a mapping site can attest, the technology behind the sites is far from perfect.We asked Dave Schafer, general manager of MapQuest which was acquired by AOL in 2000 what goes into a map site, and why you sometimes cant get there from here. "

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

FULL STORY: In Search of a Better MapQuest

Sunday, December 1, 2002 in Wired

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