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MapQuest is an American free online web mapping service launched in 1996 as the first commercial web mapping service. It offers various services and programs, such as driving directions, satellite imagery, buddy-finder, customized routes, and gas price comparison.
A comprehensive list of online map services by continent and country, including global and local maps. Bing Maps is one of the global online map service providers, covering the whole world with various features and data.
A table that compares various features and functions of different web map services, including Google Maps, Bing Maps, MapQuest, Mapy.cz, OpenStreetMap, Here WeGo, Apple Maps and Yandex Maps. See the availability, navigation, directory, interface and viewing interface of each service.
Anaximander (died c. 546 BCE) is credited with having created one of the first maps of the world, which was circular in form and showed the known lands of the world grouped around the Aegean Sea at the center. This was all surrounded by the ocean. See reconstruction and sources of Anaximander's map.
Johann Homann (1664-1724) was a German geographer and cartographer who made maps of the Americas and the world. He was appointed Imperial Geographer by Charles VI and founded a publishing house that produced many atlases and maps.
MapQuest offers online, mobile, business and developer solutions that help people discover and explore where they would like to go, how to get there and what to do along the way and at your destination.
At the time this wall map was drawn, Waldseemüller was working as part of the group of scholars of the Vosgean Gymnasium at Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in Lorraine, which in that time belonged to the Holy Roman Empire. The maps were accompanied by the book Cosmographiae Introductio produced by the Vosgean Gymnasium.
This category is for historic maps showing all or part of Europe. See subcategories for smaller areas. "Historic maps" means maps made over seventy (70) years ago.