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Is MapQuest a viable alternative to Google Maps for your website?

5th February 2013 by Alan Leave a Comment

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Recently I have been coding some stuff using MapQuest rather than Google Maps. This was mainly spurned by the fact that Google Maps is no longer free – however of course we are talking about more than 25,000 impressions per day, so it is still free for most small website owners.

Actually using the MapQuest SDK isn’t too bad, it has lots of examples and is fairly powerful. Of course the Javascript developer kit is the most useful see http://developer.mapquest.com/web/documentation/sdk/javascript/v7.0 and has plenty of common examples.
Mapquest has both an Licensed Data and Open Data access, so of course the open data is the free service.

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Google Maps of course has Street View which is something no one else has, but apart from that MapQuest is just as neat.

Have you used MapQuest or both MapQuest & Google Maps. What do you think?

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About Alan

I'm Alan from Fullworks Digital Ltd, where I develop WordPress Plugins and support and manage WordPress websites.

My day job consists of solving clients' WordPress issues and developing new code and solutions.

I started as a professional programmer in 1979 and had been involved with the IT of business technology in virtually every area that exist.

Badlywired.com is my personal blog and my aide memoire of the many interesting facts that I come across. As I spend a lot of time gathering parts of solutions from the internet and assembling them into my own solutions, and also just learning how to do things, this blog is primarily my 'note book' and a way of giving something back to the online community that has helped me extensively.

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