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Thanks to Lake Ontario, MapQuest is popular all over again
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Re: Thanks to Lake Ontario, MapQuest is popular all over again
#12Finding MapQuest on the PlayStore was a quest all on its own. More specifically, it does not exist on my PlayStore, and I had to install it on my phone remotely through the browser PlayStore.
Review wise, it sits firmly at a single star, so it's possible that Google burried it, although I would not put it past them to rig things.
Re: Thanks to Lake Ontario, MapQuest is popular all over again
#13They'll get their 15 minutes, but there's no _there_ there. They're owned by System1, a bottom-of-the-barrel advertising company where 1990s web brands go to die (Metacrawler? Startpage.com?? Dogpile?!?!). Their maps are OpenStreetMaps maps. People think they have their back (because OSM is showing Lake Ontario), but it's just marketing.
as opposed to a top of the barrel advertising company like Google
Re: Thanks to Lake Ontario, MapQuest is popular all over again
#14I think a lot of people are desperate for tech giants to stand up to the current US administration.
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#15I tried it out for a trip yesterday. I wanted to love the app—it has a great retro feel, and an ad-free subscription option—but it gave me weird routes and the audio was extremely stuttery.
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#16It still says Ontario because there's no one left at MapQuest that knows how to change it.
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#17I feel like it wasn't defiance as much as "we need to come up with a story why we don't have any developers who know how to update this".
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#18They'll get their 15 minutes, but there's no _there_ there. They're owned by System1, a bottom-of-the-barrel advertising company where 1990s web brands go to die (Metacrawler? Startpage.com?? Dogpile?!?!). Their maps are OpenStreetMaps maps. People think they have their back (because OSM is showing Lake Ontario), but it's just marketing.
Dogpile?!? There's a name I haven't heard in what feels like 20 years. The concept of searching a bunch of search engines made sense to me.
Ironicly this is what my agent does today on my behalf because regular search has become so bad
Re: Thanks to Lake Ontario, MapQuest is popular all over again
#19It still says Ontario because there's no one left at MapQuest that knows how to change it.
That may be, but it's still what many people want.
Re: Thanks to Lake Ontario, MapQuest is popular all over again
#20I enjoy how Bing Maps (and Bing in general) are so unloved that it's not even part of the debate. (Bing Maps hasn't changed - yet - but probably will eventually, since they caved on the Gulf of Mexico)