Mapquest is finally beginning to see the "free" light. The company recently announced a new set of developer APIs (dubbed "MapQuest Platform: Free Edition") to compete with similar APIs from Google ...

Google Maps is no longer the only free navigation app people trust every day. A growing group of users now swear by alternatives that offer richer traffic data, stronger offline support, or tighter ...

If you’re leaving, it helps to know where you’re going, right? Over the past decade, the Internet has nourished a number of free map providers, which will furnish you with customized information to ...

Google scared the balls off of turn-by-turn navigation companies when it released its free nav app for Android, largely because an iPhone version seemed inevitable. Well, it’s still not here. But ...

Following the success of its iPhone app, Mapquest has released a free, voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation app for Android handsets. The new app differs in a couple ways from its older iPhone sibling ...

Mapquest was there in 1996, almost a decade before modern-day Google Maps. It is the world’s first online mapping and turn-by-turn direction service. The name Mapquest was synonymous with finding ...

The TomToms and Navigons of the world have street-level turn-by-turn navigation down pat, but they’re expensive. Skobbler uses OpenStreetMap, the “wikipedia of maps,” to deliver its turn-by-turn ...