{"id":6172,"date":"2015-06-01T10:05:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T15:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6172"},"modified":"2015-05-30T14:05:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T19:05:54","slug":"mapquest-is-here-and-maybe-we-should-pay-more-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/mapquest-is-here-and-maybe-we-should-pay-more-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapquest is here, and maybe we should pay more attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago, the Washington Post reminded us that <a href=\"http:\/\/thegazette.com\/subject\/news\/mapquest-seeking-a-second-life-20150526\">Mapquest is still out there<\/a>, despite its unpleasant journey from being on everyone&#8217;s lips in the early Internet era to virtually invisible and squashed by Google.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Then, of course, there&#8217;s the one thing Mapquest has that Google has inexplicably continued to ignore: <em>Mapquest shows county lines<\/em>. For a county-counter and map aficionado like me, that&#8217;s a crucial component.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago, the Washington Post reminded us that Mapquest is still out there, despite its unpleasant journey from being on everyone&#8217;s lips in the early Internet era to virtually invisible and squashed by Google. Now that Google Maps &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/mapquest-is-here-and-maybe-we-should-pay-more-attention\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6184,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6172\/revisions\/6184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}