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5/24/2006

Talk Back to Mapquest

Filed under:   by Xrlq @ 7:27 pm

If Mapquest and the other online maps get something wrong in your neighborhood, tell NAVTEQ about it. It won’t actually do anything, but it might make you feel better.

2 Responses to “Talk Back to Mapquest”

  1. Alice H Says:
    May 26th, 2006 at 11:19 am

    Well, that explains it…I wondered why Mapquest couldn’t even get the Denver metro area right, since they’re based here - but if they’re using a database created and maintained by someone in Chicago, that would explain it. It took almost a year for the new on-ramp to I-25 to make it into Mapquest, which was frustrating because it added an extra half-page of directions for driving to anything south of our house.

    I thought I read an article a few years ago that said that Mapquest drove (literally) their own data, but I guess I was mistaken.

  2. McGehee Says:
    May 29th, 2006 at 4:37 pm

    I “talk back” to Mapquest by always assuming they’re going to get it wrong. Which means I don’t use them on my own account, and I don’t believe the maps or directions when some website funnels their “location finder” function through them.

    It makes life a lot easier.

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