Microsoft MapBlast

By Lian Maksin

Credits go to: 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 been a tremendous breakthrough. The world wide web gives unlimited access to information, allows one to buy, sell, advertise, reunite with former friends and colleagues or learn. A real achievement was the introduction of the MapBlast service online. The type of servicecovers anything that has to do with geographical orientations including both directions and maps. Since Microsoft redirected Vicinity's MapBlast, the users of MSN Maps and Directions can use Mapblast as well.

The site re-orientation came as a result of Microsoft's acquisition of Vicinity MapBlast. Even if already very numerous, the visitors to the Microsoft online services have increased partly because of the appearance of MSN MapBlast.

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 was 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, there are other things that MSN MapBlast has to offer to its users When you want to go to some unknown place, you can get directions using the MSN Mapblast. 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 increasing number of users that Microsoft's MSN has had, many of them seem dissatisfied with the directions and map service offered by the MSN MapBlast, since the redirection of MapBlast a few years ago. Some say that the new service does not offer all the possibilities 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. 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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