MapQuest Launches New Product 'MapQuest Advantage API', Delivering Expanded Functionality and Performance
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DENVER, CO, March 19, 2004
MapQuest, the world's leading online location based services and solutions company, today announced the launch of MapQuest Advantage API, a robust ASP offering built to support the needs of next generation Location Based Software deployments around the world.
"MapQuest Advantage API was built based on customer feedback and demand in the marketplace for a feature rich product that can be deployed across the enterprise quickly" said Craig Barton, Director, Product Management for MapQuest Business Solutions.
"With the addition of Advantage API to our product line, our customers can use a single MapQuest API and choose to have the service in a MapQuest hosted environment with Advantage API or deploy with the same API on their premises with our "behind the firewall" Advantage Enterprise product."
The latest API offering has more features, data, and capabilities adding significant value to application breadth and reducing time to deployment.
A short list of the expanded features and capabilities includes:
- Optimized multi-point routing.
- Expanded worldwide geographic coverage.
- Enhanced wireless and GPS output capability.
- Expanded Geospatial search capabilities.
- MapQuest patented Locations Along The Way Technology.
- Support for industry standard development environments (C++, Java, COM and ADP).
- Support for Informix, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MSFT Access and Sybase databases.
- .Net compatibility.
- Enhanced and expanded reporting capability.
- latform agnostic deployment capability forWindows, Linux, and Solaris
- Support for larger and more complex location datasets.
MapQuest is the leader in the Location-based Services (LBS) software market with over 1,400 customers. MapQuest.com, which serves over 32 million users per month, is built on the same software that is sold into the marketplace. For more information about Advantage API and other MapQuest products email sales@mapquest.com.
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.