{"id":1791587,"date":"2021-08-17T20:27:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T00:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1791587"},"modified":"2021-08-17T20:27:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T00:27:09","slug":"mapquest-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/08\/mapquest-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"MapQuest to the Rescue?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adam Engst of TidBITS<\/em>\u00a0had a specific routing problem that only one map app could solve<\/a>. The answer, as they say, will surprise you:\u00a0\u201cWhen faced with needing to visit 43 different addresses, what was the most efficient route? It\u2019s easy enough to enter an address into Apple\u2019s Maps or Google Maps, and even add an extra stop or two. But 43 stops in an optimal route? […] A little research revealed that MapQuest\u2014remember MapQuest from the days when we all printed directions?\u2014offers precisely what I needed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adam Engst of TidBITS\u00a0had a specific routing problem that only one map app could solve. The answer, as they say, will surprise you:\u00a0\u201cWhen faced with needing to visit 43 different addresses, what was the most… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-1791587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-mobile","tag-mapquest","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1833230,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/07\/remembering-mapquest\/","url_meta":{"origin":1791587,"position":0},"title":"Remembering MapQuest","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"25 July 2024","format":"link","excerpt":"The tenth installment of James Killick\u2019s \u201c12 Map Happenings that Rocked our World\u201d series focuses on a company James actually worked at: MapQuest, which grew very, very rapidly between its launch in 1996 (James outlines its antecedents) to its IPO and acquisition by AOL a few years later. 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