TIL MapQuest is still around.
this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2025
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Right? It’s a darn fine marketing effort.
Kind of makes me want to go back to printing 6 page instructions to destinations that I hold in my right hand and read whilst driving with my left hand.
You might want to do that anyway. You know, in case everything does get shut down. I know people who can’t navigate their own city without GPS for the life of them.
OpenStreetMaps works well, and OrganicMaps is really nice to use on mobile (same data, available offline).
I can draw a usefully realistic map of every city I've spent significant time in. I can also drive around a city as big as Los Angeles without GPS (though some of the fucking freeway exits in this town are fucking ass backwards).
So when I'm in a taxi this weekend in a different city (not an Uber, an actual licensed cab) and he can't even figure out where you want to go when showing him the map with the location.... wow. He never actually did figure out where we wanted to go, we just held the phone for him so he could follow the GPS directions to one of the more popular neighborhoods in the town he drives in professionally.
I kind of did this with sticky notes on the dash during my last road trip. I was travelling through an area I knew would have poor reception at the time, so I made a bullet point list of the main road changes.
It was kind of nice not having to check a screen for directions.
Writing the directions down on a paper is still more convenient than taking out and unlocking ypur phone if a) you're on a bike; b) if it is cold out and you don't want to take off your gloves.
I used their mapping and geocoding APIs for years, back when I was negotiating contracts. They're good (at least in N. America) and 1/5th the price of google.
They have an app
Not sure this falls flat or worse. It’s the Gulf of Mexico. That’s it. Nothing else. Not even a conversation. “It is what it is”
I think it's just making the point that anyone can name anything whatever they want, but it doesn't change what people call it. Obviously Trump thinks he's God so he probably actually thinks something has happened as a result of his declaration.
The stupid thing is every country and every language has always had different words for the same places.
The French don't call it France.
The French don’t call it France.
What does this mean?
France is a pretty weird example because most French people do call it France. But technically the country is République français, or the French Republic.
But a better example would be Germany; it's natively called Deutschland and dozens of languages call it Allemagne or variants of that. Both Germany and Allemagne are historical names we haven't moved on from, even though the actual country has.
Well they call it Français, not France
That's true of a number of places, here are two I'm familiar with:
- Japan = Nippon
- Korea = HanGuk (Korea comes from an old state, Goryeo, that ended... >600 years ago, when Joseon took over)
Looks like his distraction is pretty effective.
I’m still sold on Gulf Dukat.
Dukat would be proud that the humans in an alternate timeline, where he's fictional, went and named something after him for all his great deeds.
And then he'd find out why we're really naming it after him and he'd try every underhanded trick in the book and a handful of new ones in order to find a way into our universe to show us how great he really is.
Fuckin gottem.
Water McGulfy
Gulfy McGulfface? Are we still doing that meme?
I mean we're making it with MapQuest, if there was ever a time for necromemecy it's now.
Gulfy McGulfface
The real gulf of America is the gulf that Trump has ripped open between the US and its allies
Here's the direct link https://gulfof.mapquest.com/
Thank you for the link, I'm definitely sharing this with my friends
Here Maps kept it as the Gulf of Mexico
It's really too bad that Mapquest still looks like it's from the 90s
At this point I think that’s probably a feature
MapQuest is from the 1990s.
I know. It hasn't changed
Based MapQuest.
This is the type of content I need in my life at the moment.
That feature actually could be just a map overlay. Who did play with oruxmaps or qgis knows what it is...
Fun! Thanks for sharing!
But don't tell the Great Tricktator, or you goto jail immediately.