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Thanks 👍

when I tap that nothing happens

Same

Would be cool if I could see ‘map options’. Is it only available in the app?

Only showing on my phone, not in android auto. Kind limits the usefulness in avoiding the car spy cameras if I can't see them while driving my car!

The part you circled is not the part that catches my eye.

I think we all owe Mapquest a collective apology for abandoning them out of laziness for all these years cuz Google Maps was already on my phone (at least that's what it was for me). Thank you for being a breath of fresh air from the current tech companies. Don't let them try to buy you out!

your app is sadly not available in my region (europe) but this feature was what made me want to install it. keep up the good work and I hope to become a user one day!

Allow us to always keep it in spooky season.

bei g this based while this silly is aspirational

yes please!!!

Is this feature available on the website version, or only on the app?

From what I can see, it's getting the info from OpenStreetMap, which means the easiest way to report them would probably be via the DeFlock app.

Does this actually affect route calculation like FlockHopper or is it just visual indicators on the map?

holy shit am I switching back to mapquest after 20 years

... with the subsequent ban from the app stores. crazier things have happened

Can it (at least try to) build your route to avoid them?

Awesome update! I’m still loving my rainbow unicorn but that ghost is adorable!

Are you kidding me? There are 3 LPR’s within 1/4 mile of my house - in the neighborhoods! I literally can’t leave the house by car without passing one. What’s going on San Diego?

Last time you and I saw each other we were learning to drive and printing out directions. Welcome back!

Appreciate it! Would love a navigation option to avoid them like how you can avoid toll roads

Thank you @mapquest.com you are a bright spot in dark times

Downloaded making the switch. You guys rock.

I don't seem to have that option. is it not avail on iphone? How can i find surveillance and metro options?

When is it available outside the US?

Thank you!

Sadly, it keeps crashing in GrapheneOS. I've been using a combo of Waze, FlockFree and DeFlock and was hoping this would work as it looks like a great alternative. Sadly, it won't, but I'll def hype it for anyone who doesn't use Graphene. Happy to see a non-Quisling company for a change! Keep it up!

Can i have GTA style Wanted stars?

Jeebus, there are a lot more of those damn things around here than I thought there were.

Cool!

Well played, MapQuest

With Fotoshi you can take photos that out surveillance cameras on the map!

MapQuest is the navigation app for THE PEOPLE.

Thanks for the link!

Did this evening. Damn

Just in time for when people are masked up at Halloween. Would be a shame if a lot of these cameras were vandalized by people not wanting to be tracked constantly.

This is very cool.

Wow

PS please can we keep the spookies forever I'll pay 😭

Jfc you guys rock lol

Loving the comeback. Thanks for prioritizing your users over the technofascists.

Is there a routing option to avoid these cameras?

You guys really didn't need to make yourself even cooler after not capitulating but this is fuckin awesome! 🤘

Lose my interest and RESPECT to be clear. I ignore products from companies I don't respect. You could have played along and made it a fun working together thing instead of... that. Looks like a great idea, just don't engage in friendly fire dude, not cool, we're on the same side.

is this going to be rolling out to CarPlay? seeing it in-app but not on the car

Great update but deeply disturbing

Wait are you down the road from Snap?

O M G

Ha. Just call it Incognito Mode.

Then you ain't going anywhere.

is this not available on the web?

Ok cool but like where do I choose the ghost 👻?

Worked for my android. Thanks @mapquest.com!

I have to admit, I did not have MapQuest Saves Democracy on my bingo card

😳😳

"ALPRs" use AI-driven vehicle fingerprinting & video capture to identify cars & track the movement of pedestrians and vehicle occupants. They link across a vast network and integrate them with commercial data brokers, reconstructing a person's travel history and link to their real-world identity.

Oh, totally. Very few issues with apps working. Mapquest not working being the worst though.

Just got yourself a return customer user. Later google!

It would be awesome to be able to route around known ALPRs. Please make that happen!

Mine doesn’t have this. Do you need the paid version for this feature?

Thank you! This is fantastic!

Hell yeah!!

All that and cool new spooky Questies! And only a small (50?) team!!!! You guys are awesome!

Mapquest out here working for us!

Any chance you fixed the massive battery drain? I had to delete it because of that (worse than Pokemon go, which is amazing).

Cool, now can you add ICE sightings? (Like speed traps, only more deadly.)

Whose neighborhoods are these anyway?

They are ALWAYS around the Home Depots!!

What version is this in? I do not see it in iOS 10.27.0.

And the depression sets back in. Jfc.

Awesome!

Is this a route avoidance option like tolls and ferries? I know that's often impossible, but I can see the least surveilled route being offered as an option.

Fan-f’ing-tastic! 👏👏👏

W

mapquest v big brother

This is a really good feature to have. Also, I’m pretty sure that place is like 1000 feet from where I used to get lunch when I was in college.

That’s a lot of cameras. I really hope nobody vandalises them using guides they’ve found on the internet which point out how to do it quickly and be undetected.

How about bike trails?

Does the surveillance layer include all the surveillance of people (fare gates, video cameras on transit, etc), not just ALPRs for deadly pieces of property?

Haha, love this! MapQuest showing how to read the room!

I can't find it in the free version either.

google would love to... oh, you didn't mean install more alprs?! yeah, no...

Google sux

You need to remove your elected officials, Barnwell, and get new ones who will cancel and remove all the surveillance BS!

Great feature, and the icing on the cake is that Google would never copy this one. Curious whether Apple will.

Is there a way to report one? Y'all are missing one that's around the corner from me, but also it's one of the oldest alprs I've ever seen, even older than my knowledge of what the technology was.

No way!!!! My daughter is gonna love this! The dog is her fave right now. 🙂

For us? For free? In this economy? Wow you shouldn't have. RAWR. Going to be downloading so hard tonight ;)

Will you provide routing options to minimize or avoid the cameras?

This is awesome!

I just turned this on very cool

It works! Here's downtown Vancouver Canada. That's awesome, you're doing amazing work

@deflock.org @404media.co @bennjordan.bsky.social 👀

Fun. 🖕🏻🖕🏻 tae these characters, hey MapQuest? 😂

I didn’t see the eyes on Apple CarPlay.

This is the way.

How do I enable this in the browser?

Holy shit!

Cool! Though with Apple Maps, I wish I could turn OFF the surveillance layer, aka red-light camera warnings. Yes, I know there's a camera there, there's also a red light to tell me if I need to stop. Speed-trap warnings are ok, though I last got one on a freeway crawling at 25mph :-)

MapQuest now shows surveillance cameras and license-plate readers along your route. First: MAPQUEST IS BACK? 1999: Turn left on Oak St. 2026: Turn left on Oak St. The government may now know you turned left on Oak St. We built surveillance technology. Now technology helps us avoid it. Progress!

Guess I'm installling Mapquest again

MapQuest continuing to show up.

Big Brother control grids.

I turned on my surveillance layer in MapQuest and I, too, am shocked by how many readers there are in a town of 4,000 people.