Gannett Newspapers and MapQuest Team Up to Expand Mapping and Routing Functionality on Gannett's Newspaper Websites to Enhance Overall User Experience
Readers Will Locate Community Events and Local Points of Interest
August 7, 2003
MapQuest, the world's leading online mapping, routing and global location-based services company and wholly owned subsidiary of America Online, Inc., today announced an expanded agreement with Gannett, Co., Inc., the USA's largest newspaper group in terms of circulation, to map-enable the community calendar platform utilized by many of Gannett's newspapers nationwide.
Under the agreement, Gannett has licensed MapQuest Enterprise v2.0, a set of advanced, customizable, enterprise mapping tools from MapQuest Business Solutions for integration within the community calendar platform of Gannett Newspapers websites, including such leading newspapers as The Indianapolis Star, The Journal News of Westchester, NY, and The Courier Journal of Louisville, KY. The license agreement enables Gannett's individual newspapers to easily expand the mapping and routing functionality of their online offerings, without having to purchase or build an expensive custom mapping solution.
"By bringing together the leading provider of mapping and location based services and the nation's leading newspaper group, we're enabling the Gannett family of newspapers to make their online offerings even more indispensable to their readers," said Walt Doyle, Vice President and General Manager of MapQuest Business Solutions. "Now they can use MapQuest's mapping tools to help their readers locate events within their community as well as local points of interest ranging from restaurants to schools to real estate". v
"We've been very pleased with our past MapQuest relationships, and by expanding that relationship we've added another layer of convenience and value for our readers," said Jack Williams, Senior Vice President, Diversified Business and Development for Gannett."
MapQuest's Business Solutions group is the preferred provider of a full range of mapping and routing solutions to more than 1,400 leading businesses across key categories, including retail, healthcare, financial, real estate, travel and automotive. MapQuest Business Solutions allows businesses to map-enable their Web sites, company Intranet and call-center applications for improved marketing and customer service functionality. The flexible and scalable suite of products includes interactive maps, powerful proximity search functionality, business locator applications, point-to-point driving directions and much more.
More information about MapQuest Business Solutions can be found at www.mapquest.com/solutions/product.adp or by calling 1-888-627-7837. Annual license fees are based upon business and technical needs.
About America Online
America Online, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL Time Warner (NYSE: AOL). Based in Dulles, Virginia, America Online is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies and e-commerce services
About Gannett Co., Inc.
Gannett Co., Inc. is a leading international news and information company that publishes 100 daily newspapers in the USA, including USA TODAY, the nation's largest-selling daily newspaper. The company also owns in excess of 400 non-daily publications in the USA and USA WEEKEND, a weekly newspaper magazine. Gannett subsidiary Newsquest is the United Kingdom's second largest regional newspaper company. Newsquest publishes more than 300 titles, including17 daily newspapers, and a network of prize-winning Web sites. Gannett also operates 22 television stations in the United States and is an Internet leader with sites sponsored by its TV stations and newspapers including USATODAY.com, one of the most popular news sites on the web.
About MapQuest
MapQuest helps people find places. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado and Mountville, Pennsylvania, MapQuest offers Web, Wireless, Business Solutions, and Published products worldwide. MapQuest.com, both the top mapping and directories site on the Web according to comScore Media Metrix, served 38 million users in February 2005. MapQuest also empowers more than 1,400 businesses with software solutions to location-enable Web and wireless applications, and is a leading provider of custom mapping content for publishers and corporations, producing more than 1.5 billion pages of printed maps every year. MapQuest.com Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of America Online, Inc.