A couple weeks ago, the Washington Post reminded us that Mapquest is still out there, despite its unpleasant journey from being on everyone’s lips in the early Internet era to virtually invisible and squashed by Google.
Now that Google Maps has become so bloated, and killed off the Classic version that reduced some of that, perhaps MQ should be advertising itself as the leaner alternative. I found myself using MQ more than before while working on stuff recently.
Then, of course, there’s the one thing Mapquest has that Google has inexplicably continued to ignore: Mapquest shows county lines. For a county-counter and map aficionado like me, that’s a crucial component.