Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Map Quest’s Bar Locator

http://www.mapquest.com/


When it comes to geospatial applications, MapQuest is definitely one containing a great amount of information. Www.mapquest.com is a website/ geospatial application that allows you to view the world. The purpose of MapQuest is to help people, wherever they are, locate places, generate directions, and know the approximate time it will take to travel between destinations.. For the purpose of our assignment, we have decided to go into greater detail on the bar locating application that MapQuest offers to its users. The top menu bar of the map contains a scroll bar with many different search applications that make it possible to find hotspots easily. To locate and apply the bar finding application, you scroll through the list until you find the martini glass icon, then click on it. After clicking the icon numerous numbered bubbles pop-up on the current map you are viewing. The bars have been tagged so that if you place your mouse over the bubbles, the address of the chosen bar will appear in what resembles a speech bubble. Along with the bubbles appearing on the map, a legend is generated on the left side that allows you to see all the tagged bars. From the legend you can generate a route and directions to and from bars.

Dave Drago
Cory Hudson
Allyson Oliphant
Catherine Reining
Taylor Wright