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Optional. Launched. February 6, 1996; 28 years ago. ( 1996-02-06) Current status. Active. MapQuest (stylized as mapquest) is an American free online web mapping service. It was launched in 1996 as the first commercial web mapping service. [1] MapQuest vies for market share with competitors such as Google Maps and Here.
Cars were rapidly adopted in the US, where they replaced horse-drawn carriages. In Europe and other parts of the world, demand for automobiles did not increase until after World War II. The car is considered an essential part of the developed economy. Cars have controls for driving, parking, passenger comfort, and a variety of lamps. Over the ...
Google Street View is a technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides interactive panoramas from positions along many streets in the world. It was launched in 2007 in several cities in the United States, and has since expanded to include all of the country's major and minor cities, as well as the cities and rural areas of many other countries worldwide.
Mapilio gathers street-level images from its worldwide users, subject to the terms of a CC BY-SA license. Microsoft Bing Streetside offers street view via right click in Bing Maps. The Mapillary project collects crowdsourced images from its users, which are licensed under a CC BY-SA license.
Google Maps is a web mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive panoramic views of streets (Street View), real-time traffic conditions, and route planning for traveling by foot, car, bike, air (in beta) and public transportation.
The Dura-Europos Route map is the oldest known map of (a part of) Europe preserved in its original form. It is a fragment of a map drawn onto a leather portion of a shield by a Roman soldier in c. 235 AD. It depicts several towns along the northwest coast of the Black Sea . The Tabula Peutingeriana, a copy of a scroll originally dating to about ...
Background An Apple Maps vehicle driving through St. Charles, Missouri, in June 2015 An Apple Maps van in Havre, Montana, in July 2018 An Apple Maps car near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in June 2019 An Apple Maps car driving in Geelong, Australia, in November 2019 An Apple Maps car driving in Liège, Belgium, in August 2023 Cameras of an Apple Maps car in Grenoble, France, in June 2020 An ...
Google Street View coverage. The following is a timeline for Google Street View, a technology implemented in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides ground-level interactive panoramas of cities. The service was first introduced in the United States on May 25, 2007, and initially covered only five cities: San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver ...