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MapQuest Launches New Line of Printed Travel Publications

MapQuest Launches New Line of Printed Travel Publications

Road Atlases, Specialty Guides and Laminated Maps, Extend the MapQuest Service Offline

June 2, 2005 - New York City - MapQuest Inc. today announced the launch of its MapQuest(r) Publishing product line, a new family of printed travel publications that will include road atlases, specialty guides, and laminated maps. MapQuest, which draws 41 million users each month to its online mapping service, is the leading online directory service.
"We are always looking for ways to extend the popular MapQuest service beyond the desktop with services such as our suite of mobile mapping and directions services, and now a new line of printed maps that will make finding places of interest easier," said Tommy McGloin, senior vice president and general manager for MapQuest, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of America Online, Inc.

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Desktop Computer - The MapQuest(r) Right Place Guide to Colleges & Universities combines a directory of 1,500 four-year schools with color maps that pinpoint college locations.

Notebooks - The MapQuest(r) Auto Racing Track Guide and Atlas, combines a directory of U.S. auto racing with a road atlas that pinpoints the location of over 1,200 race tracks, and includes information on track diagrams, dining, lodging, and local attractions.

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Travelstar - The MapQuest(r) Find It Maps for 20 cities and 38 states offer handy locator guides to zoos, parks, museums, golf courses, historic sites, spectator venues and more. MapQuest's new publishing program even includes student atlases for the classroom and family reference atlases for the home.

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About MapQuest MapQuest helps people find places. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado and Mountville, Pennsylvania, MapQuest offers Internet, Mobile, Business Solutions, and Published products worldwide. MapQuest.com, both the top mapping and directories site on the Web according to comScore Media Metrix, served over 41 million users in April 2005. MapQuest also empowers more than 1,400 businesses with software solutions to location-enable Web and wireless applications, and is a leading publisher and provider of mapping content for other publishers and corporations, producing more than 1.5 billion pages of printed maps every year. MapQuest is a wholly owned subsidiary of America Online, Inc. About America Online, Inc. America Online, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Warner Inc. Based in Dulles, Virginia, America Online is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies and e-commerce services.

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