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Microsoft Map Services

March 23, 2009

More at: Car Bed Child. The invention of the computer has been a blessing and a curse at the same time. Despite its bad bits, the appearance of the Internet, as this is maybe the most important function of the computer for all users, regardless of whether they are individual or businesses, has marked a major breakthrough. The world wide web gives unlimited access to information, allows one to buy, sell, advertise, reunite with former friends and colleagues or learn. A real achievement was the introduction of the MapBlast service online. The type of servicecovers anything that has to do with geographical orientations including both directions and maps. Since Microsoft redirected Vicinity’s MapBlast, the users of MSN Maps and Directions can use Mapblast as well.

The site redirection came as a result of Microsoft’s acquisition of Vicinity MapBlast. Even if already very numerous, the visitors to the Microsoft online services have increased partly because of the appearance of MSN MapBlast.

The MSN MapBlast service of MSN Maps & Directions rated 8 out of 10 by Good Housekeeping for accuracy, easiness of use, quickest routes, detailed street coverage in 13 countries, among which Canada and the US, as well as for 11 countries in Western Europe.

MapBlast first got functional as a web mapping service launched in the mid 1990s. It was designed by Vicinity Corporation and permitted website owners to include maps in their own web pages.

Anyway, there are other things that MSN MapBlast has to offer to its users For travelers to new parts of the world, MapBlast could be of an incredible help. You can explore the United States, Canada and many other countries at road level; find your way in the neighborhood, map the vicinity and locate any place where you’d like to go .

In spite of the bigger number of users attracted by MSN, many of them are not that content with the directions and map service offered by the MSN MapBlast, since the integration in the Microsoft structures a few years ago. Some say that the new service does not offer all the possibilities that MapBlast.com used to provide.

The new site was created using Microsoft MapPoint technology as the basis for the desktop products and the MapPoint Web Service. The MapPoint Web Service can be given applications from your own web site. The old MapBlast format nevertheless survives in the new MSN approach and format.

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