MapQuest is NOT renaming the Gulf of Mexico. Our maps are like grandma's Thanksgiving recipes — once they're printed, they're not changing. The Gulf of Mexico stays put on MapQuest.
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I used to love MapQuest when it first came out, it was the best. I love that I can go to the google store and download the app and give a big FU to google and start using MapQuest again.
You just confirmed my choice to disable gmaps & stay in Mapquest as I have for years! Even with that annoying 1/2 page ad that looks like fake home page when one opens the app now. do better on that.
Except that Trump did sign an Executive Order that officially changed the name and Google made an announcement where they said they were more than happy to oblige but from the looks of it, it backfired on Google since I’m still seeing “Mexico” here.
Thank you Mapquest for getting me safely from Texas to Oregon 20 years ago. I still have my trip printed out.
Thank you for holding the line. We cannot let this madness stand. Viva the Gulf of Mexico!
Need confirmation or correction by expert, but I recall stuff that gets printed by fed. gov. has to go through OMB review. No wave of magic wand. Good for MapQuest.
I worked for MapQuest for 8 years between 2007 and 2015, working on the search middleware layer and 1-box query analyzer. I had added a mechanism to rewrite queries and would have happily overridden "Gulf of America" to redirect to someplace else. Sadly y'all switched to Here maps, so that's gone.
Oh damn, I had so many editorial overrides. "Casa de Esteban" used to go to my house in Red Lion, PA. "Neven's Awesome Treehouse" was for a friend in Taos, NM. I used to trade shortcuts for free beers at the bars. Had an app on my phone that would add and make a shortcut live in ~5 minutes.
Here maps is the backend geo services that provide routing and directions, map tiles (the images that make up the map), and geocoding (address -> lat/lon pair). MapQuest used to develop all of those services internally. https://www.here.com/
Need an app across the pond please!! Sorry to desert my US brothers and sisters, but I’ll be spending a lot more time in sanity… please give us an app, UK or EU both work!!
It's good that you're keeping this name, absolutely, but ... You're sure you never change your maps no matter what?
Because I would have thought there might be good reasons to change maps later on. You never do that, really?
The fact that Google would compromise their own product to appease an unpopular president means their products are untrustworthy. I am switching off all Google products
My parents still print out directions, and they sometimes call them TripTicks, like the old AAA maps with a route hand-marked in highlighter. Please don't ever change.
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setting you to my default map...
better options to that other map site that obeyed in advance!
Will be using Mapquest exclusively
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mapquest-gps-navigation-maps/id316126557
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mapquest.android.ace&pcampaignid=web_share
Private Maps: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mapquest.android.private&pcampaignid=web_share
Now can we have Android Auto support, please?
(Also European Support?)
Moving to your maps!!!
Looks like the name is staying too.
I love y’all pls do this before the others 💙🌎🌍🌏
we 🫶 you too!
I’m in the industry, if y’all need any unofficial testing support or if i can help support in a more official capacity, DM me!
Thank you for holding the line. We cannot let this madness stand. Viva the Gulf of Mexico!
TF is here maps? I certainly didn't switch to any "here map", never even heard of it....
Google Maps is disabled.
Because I would have thought there might be good reasons to change maps later on. You never do that, really?