It also provided Mapquest with imagery in 2001 and 2002.

MapQuest also lets you search for gas prices around your local area.

MapQuest plans to offer a similar program this year.

According to MapQuest, the trip was just five miles - 15 minutes.

Also, do not rely on Mapquest for driving directions within cities.

Mapquest is beginning a service today that will offer maps of 100 cities around the world, down to the street level.

MapQuest started me immediately with a form to fill in addresses for directions.

But an online visit to Mapquest revealed the true potential of this assignment.

MapQuest, which claims to have a 75 percent market share, is easy for drivers to blame when they become lost.

He had to use MapQuest last night to find this place."

Unfortunately, MapQuest didn't know that 14,000 other people were also going.

"I had to go zooming in on MapQuest six times to find it."

But that's not as easy as consulting Mapquest and heading out.

I use MapQuest as a guide for many trips.

While getting directions from MapQuest, you can get information about a handful of such establishments.

Like MapQuest, users must enter addresses for their journey's start and end.

Its map service is now a very close third behind MapQuest and Yahoo.

But unlike, say, MapQuest, they do not supply automatic distance measurements.

Then came a series of unmarked forks, unnoticed by MapQuest.

MapQuest uses software that converts text to speech to deliver driving directions.

Travelers can download directions from online services like Mapquest onto a palmtop computer.

MapQuest has a Send to Phone service as well.

Finally, if you need driving directions, Mapquest will print them out for 34 American metropolitan areas.

Without a global positioning system or directions from Mapquest, many of us cannot find our way out of a coat closet.

Instead, he should gain quick proficiency with MapQuest and Google.