Extending the Desktop into the Palm of Your Hand

With the free¹ Send to Cell map service, you can search for places or create MapQuest® maps and directions on your computer and send the map results to your web-enabled cell phone by simply clicking on the "Send to Cell" link conveniently found on results pages throughout the MapQuest.com site. Then, while on the go, quickly access the results on your mobile device via a simple URL text link to MapQuest for Mobile Web, all "right-sized" for your cell phone.

Plan Online

• Create maps and turn-by-turn driving directions utilizing the MapQuest.com features including advanced routing options such as: shortest time, shortest distance, reverse directions or multipoint routing; and send the information to your web-enabled cell phone.
• Since the information is easily entered from your desktop, there's no need to type addresses using the keypad on your wireless phone.
• Access 16 million Points of Interest, places, and business listings from the MapQuest® database and deliver the results to your mobile device.

Interactive Results

• Interactive mobile maps with pan and zoom functions.
• Detailed driving directions provide turn-by-turn directions with distance and time estimates.
• Once on MapQuest for Mobile Web, users may search their results for other locations and places.

No Charge for Use

• The Send to Cell feature is available at no charge², and no subscription or download is required.

To enhance the experience even further, the service automatically detects if a user is a MapQuest® Mobile subscriber and delivers the best browsing experience.

How it Works

MapQuest.com is already the top maps and directions website in the country; used by millions³ of people each month. Users can pull up a map, plan a route, or find one of 16 million Points of Interest from the MapQuest database. Now, placing that information on your web-enabled cell phone is just a click away. After planning your route on MapQuest.com, click on the 'Send to Cell' link above your route details. Enter your cell phone number and email address into the pop-up menu, and hit 'Send'. Our servers then send a text message from MapQuest.com to the text message inbox on your phone. A text message will show the title and email address of your map, and contain a custom URL link which opens MapQuest for Mobile Web in your cell phone web browser; right to the route you planned.⁴

Experience the convenience of research or planning online, and take the desktop experience to your wireless device.

1. Although MapQuest provides MapQuest for Mobile Web free-of-charge, your carrier may charge data fees for access to the internet. Please check with your carrier for details.
2. Some carriers charge a fee to send or receive SMS text messages. Please check with your carrier for details.
3. comScore Media Metrix December 2007
4. Some carriers block access to URL links within text messages; if you cannot click the link or you do not receive the text message, please check with your carrier to confirm that product use is consistent with your carrier's Terms of Service.