Microsoft Map Services

More at: Car Bed Child. When computers were invented they brought a curse and a blessing that we haven’t been able to eliminate. In spite of its negative aspects, 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. One of the services launched on the Internet is MapBlast. The type of servicecovers anything that has to do with geographical orientations including both directions and maps. Thanks to the collaboration of Microsoft with MapBlast by Vicinity, web site visitors to MSN, Maps & Directions can benefit from this service, too.

The site redirection came as a result of Microsoft’s acquisition of Vicinity MapBlast. As Microsoft’s MSN users are numerous, the number has continued to grow due to the new MSN MapBlast, in part, too.

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. The initial design of the Vicinity Corporation enabled any website owner to create a map and integrate it in the program.

Anyway, what does the MSN MapBlast service have to offer the site’s users? When you want to go to some unknown place, you can get directions using the MSN Mapblast. You can explore the United States, Canada and many other countries at road level; you can create a map of your own vicinity and incorporate it in your home page; you can find your way in a new neighborhood and locate the places you need to go to .

In spite of the increasing number of users attracted by MSN, many of them seem dissatisfied with the newer map and directions service the MSN MapBlast, since the integration in the Microsoft structures a few years ago. Some say that the new service lacks some of the functions that MapBlast.com used to provide.

The MapPoint technology stays at the basis of the MSN MapBlast project just as it has created so many of the Microsoft desktop products. You can use the MapPoint Web Service from your own web site. The old MapBlast format nevertheless survives in the new MSN approach and format.

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