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I have been using MapQuest for years. To me it is like the old AAA trip quick maps that I used to get for road trips. Or is that quick trip maps, I forget. And I do not have a Google account and don't care to get one.

I downloaded MapQuest. It's been a long time coming to choose sides.

Google.......... Me:

@mapquest.com is here on BlueSky. Give them a follow.

@mapquest.com please get on Android Auto (and Carplay for those that swing that way)

Hell yes

The should add (Lake of Trump Tears) under the official name.

👆🏼👆🏼

Good ol fashioned market principles

Just to close the loop on this: maps.here.com?map=45.66387... now shows "Lake America". So it looks like the theory that "they were just slower than everybody else about processing NGIA/NGP updates" held up.

Thanks for the heads-up---I started using it yesterday, and it's been great so far!

MapQuest and OpenStreetMaps seem to be holding the line. Bing Maps hasn't changed (yet), but they caved on the Gulf so expect the same here.

"hello Mapquest my old friend, I've come to drive with you again"

The, like, government, or whatever.

There's not even a law passed to make the name change legal. It's just some creep writing a memo. People need to stop treating executive orders like they apply to anyone other than the chuds who work for the guy. The constitution is very clear about who gets to write law.

Fucking Apple changed it to Lake America

Right now, every issue other than stopping fascism is a distraction. If we fail to defeat it, every other cause becomes moot because the rights and institutions needed to fight for them may no longer exist. Talk about fascism. Expose it. Organize against it. Stop it. Scream it from the rooftops!

because not capitulating to fascists is actually american

I made the switch.

Big fucking deal. How about standing up to him by asking him about the children rapes? Again and again and again. Not with freaking toponymy!!!!

I've never heard of it here in the u.s.

Yes. I can't vouch for that though as my car is too old. Seemed to work well on a holiday rental i had

play.google.com/store/apps/d...

They claim to be working on it. It seems to be their top priority.

Wiped that a few years ago. Reviews, photos, everything that also had many millions of views.

Why people are so keen to do free work for mega corporations has always mystified me.

Kind of what my meta editor console looks like. Those editors were so fun to burn time on too. Shame they never rewarded people for all that data we fuckin spoon fed them.

Seriously, who wants to run map software that changes the names of places based on some asshole's whims.

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽. Deleting Apple Maps now.

Thanks for the info, I figured there wouldn’t be a work around, but had to ask.

They've since relented and it's Lake America

So how many companies is it now who learned an expensive lesson that betraying your customers to please these right wing bigots can cost you everything? Every month or so a new one

They use the same api calls that Google does, so you're getting the same info from your local bus/train routes, etc. SO why not do it, even if it seems performative? Send a message!

Don’t forget to delete Apple and Google maps when you upload MapQuest.

Gotta be on threads to be in the know 😎

in many US and Canadian locales the Transit App works well. But some features are paid

how much stupid shit can we fit into a single timeline?

YEEEESSSSSS!!!!

Dont see it on Australian apple app store

Sail on!

I quite enjoy using MapQuest and DuckDuckGo. But I miss my good old BlackBerry.

Cool. Sucks that it's a dogshit product.

Trump will fix the maps

My one quibble with the article: "It still calls the Gulf of Mexico by its original name, instead of Gulf of America..." It's not its 'original' name, it's its real name.

The National Weather Service still defies 0.47 on this fiasco too.

Search for Denali now

Now do Mt. McKinley which the Trump admin changed from Denali

I’ll be looking for that right now. It means #Apple maps can go too!

I’m gonna download too!

It's still Lake Ontario in the rest of the world. Both on Google maps and Apple maps. Even though they're only doing it to appease him, I'm not sure non-compliance would be appropriate. It's not really for a private company to decide on naming issues.

What if Canada decided to rename Lake Ontario, Lake Obama? They would keep the HOMES acronym. We have to deal with SHAME.

I tried, but Mapquest is unusable. Numerous pins in the completely wrong place near my house, businesses that closed a decade ago, many many missing.

😆

Yayy!

Google owns Waze. ☹️

Well it’s working, until this, I forgot Mapquest even existed

They seem to have leaned *hard* into the "video game quest" aesthetic... and absolutely nothing else.

Other labels are pointing to the wrong building entirely. Sometimes things don't even come up when searching. This is a shockingly bad experience for a new user. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

My problem with map quest is that its not a hood option if you like to use public transit they got to work on that

Nice to see someone with intestinal fortitude in Corporate America. A rarity these days.

Just switched!

great news p.s. I don't know if @mapquest.com is "bucking" or defying anyone presidents can issue executive orders all day long they bind the executive branch of the federal government they don't bind states, or @techcrunch.com or MapQuest, or individual persons if we're not exec branch employees

I downloaded Mapquest & deleted Google Maps.

Plus you can make your icon a cute pixel character!

people forget that an Executive Order is NOT A LAW. The only entities that must comply with an EO are the gov agencies that fall under the Executive branch. So all these corps. that are complying with his shit are doing so bc they’ve got contracts and he has something to hold over their heads.

I just left a one star review too. I asked Apple to give us a toggle for users that want to see the real names.

Deleted Apple Maps, replaced with Mapquest.

I didn't even know it was still around, but I'll start using Mapquest again

Like I realize they're going for a retro style, but execution and actual image resolution is really bad.

I really like Mapfactor Navigator as the alternative to Google Maps.

Just deleted the Google maps app and added the MapQuest app. Follow me!