+ One-box search for finding directions, maps and businesses. No longer does a user have to enter different parts of the address info into multiple boxes.
Remember, you can also enter a location (building name, stadium, airport code, etc.). International maps and directions are also available for some areas of the world.
+ You can login (to access personalized services like saving maps and directions) using AOL, OpenID, Yahoo, Google, Facebook and Twitter.
+ Ways to plan and personalize travel with notes, anecdotes, landmarks and short cuts.
+ You can send maps and directions to any email address, mobile number (sms) or via Facebook or Twitter by selecting the "Send to Box" (top-left of homepage) Finally, next to the "send to button look for the "link box." in it you'll find a direct link to your map. Highlight, copy, and paste into a "send to" box or anywhere else you like.
See Also: Although not new in this release MapQuest it's easy to forget (we did) that MQ offers near real-time traffic, satellite imagery and 360 View/street-level imagery (from some areas).
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Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
FreePint Family
Quilting big data threads
The fallacy of information overload
Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure? 
