MapQuest stood up to President Donald Trump, and now its app is reaping the rewards.
The “OG of online mapping,” as the company calls itself, announced on Thursday that it would not change the name of Lake Ontario on its maps to Lake America, despite Trump’s executive order directing the U.S. Department of the Interior to update the lake’s name in the U.S. geographic naming service. As a result, MapQuest’s mobile app downloads soared, sending the iOS app to the No. 4 position on the U.S. App Store’s Top Charts for apps (not including games) as of Monday morning on the U.S. east coast.
MapQuest also reached the No. 8 position overall in the U.S. App Store across both apps and games, and it became the No. 1 Navigation app in the United States.
I remember printing out directions from Mapquest back in the 2000’s. Time is a flat circle.
That’s it! (Ig)Nobel prize for you in cosmology. Or was it cosmetology? Or whatever, it’ll look nice on your desk.
I see it more as a downward spiral. Because when you think about it, it’s really what time is.
Yyyeah…
I recall printed MapQuest directions from North Carolina to Vermont trying to send me on surface streets through the middle of Washington DC in the middle of the night, and I didn’t really love that as an inexperienced college student. But I’m sure they’ve improved since then.