MSN Map Services
By: 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 delivery 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 been a major breakthrough. By using the Internet sites one can buy, sell, get information about almost anything in any field of activity, reunite with former colleagues/classmates etc. One of the services launched on the Internet is MapBlast. The type of service, as its name might suggest, has to do with orientation, directions, 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 is the 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.
Good Housekeeping rated MSN MapBlast 8 out of 10 for the accuracy, detailed street coverage and easiness of use for 11 Western European countries, Canada and the United States.
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, what does the MSN MapBlast service have to offer the site’s users? For travelers to new parts of the world, MapBlast could be of an incredible help. Several countries among which Canada and the United States can be explored 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 bigger number of users attracted by MSN, there are some who 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 lacks some of the functions 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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