subject: What Are Mapquest Driving Directions And How Do You Use Them [print this page] Traveling salesman, traveling entertainers, house-call doctors (if they still exist) or anybody that drives to varying and numerous locations to do their work on a regular basis are always in need of a few things, gas, directions and patience. MapQuest driving directions are easy to get and very convenient. MapQuest.com is a comprehensive website that enables users to input a location and find it most places in the world or input several locations within the U. S., Canada and Europe and find directions from one place to another. These are the fundamental services it is known for but is also has related uses that come in very handy. When you are traveling you can simply go to MapQuest, plot out your trip, be it one destination, two or ten and it will connect the dots with MapQuest driving directions. It produces a map of the route, written directions including miles, names of streets, visual representations of directions, time estimate and total miles. Once you have what you need, you can print it (with or without the map), save it, send, link or embed it and you are set to go. Some other useful features of MapQuest.com include the ability to find spots of interest like restaurants or state parks near your destinations. If you don't like what it suggests, you can tell it to avoid a step or two and it will recalculate the route for you. You can also instruct it to avoid highways, toll roads or seasonally closed roads. Directions can be calculated by shortest time or shortest distance. And, it also can help you calculate fuel ' so, it does help with the gas. The newest features of MapQuest driving directions are street level imagery, which provides 360? panoramic views, the ability to save maps on your phone and Blackberry, one-click search for local attractions and new reports from MapQuest's own blog. MapQuest also has links on its main page to the yellow pages, local news and gas prices. If you sign up for membership, or have an AOL account, you can sign in and save your regular destinations and MapQuest driving directions so you don't have to type them in again when you want to get new directions. If you have a phone, MapQuest is probably easiest to use for regular travelers since you don't have to access a computer or print anything out. There are also phones apps, including an iPhone turn-by-turn app. For those who don't like to use your cell phone in the car or when it is illegal to do so, you are left with visiting a computer first and printing out where you need to go. It's easy, especially with the numerous free apps that you can add to a blog if you have one and the new MapQuest driving directions toolbar. However, if you are phoneless, a GPS in the car can save time. But, then again, MapQuest is free and purchasing a GPS is not. MapQuest still doesn't have data for the entire globe but it's getting there. So, if you travel a lot for work, like to take road trips or just want to see a city in China on a map, MapQuest is a wonderfully productive tool.
What Are Mapquest Driving Directions And How Do You Use Them
