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Title: Mapquest errors
Post by: TravelingBethelite on August 31, 2015, 06:19:42 PM
Post 'em!
Here's a pretty bad one from northern Maryland:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F8FdwRnv.png&hash=246e9969cbbbb034befaa7415c76c035d9953cc3)

http://mapquest.com (http://mapquest.com)
Title: Re: Mapquest errors
Post by: Pete from Boston on August 31, 2015, 06:46:12 PM
What's Mapquest?
Title: Re: Mapquest errors
Post by: odditude on August 31, 2015, 07:55:26 PM
Quote from: Pete from Boston on August 31, 2015, 06:46:12 PM
What's Mapquest?
it's that site that AltaVista used to take you to.
Title: Re: Mapquest errors
Post by: rickmastfan67 on August 31, 2015, 08:15:48 PM
Quote from: TravelingBethelite on August 31, 2015, 06:19:42 PM
Post 'em!
Here's a pretty bad one from northern Maryland:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F8FdwRnv.png&hash=246e9969cbbbb034befaa7415c76c035d9953cc3)

http://mapquest.com (http://mapquest.com)

Is that from the MapQuest 'Open' maps, or their own maps?
Title: Re: Mapquest errors
Post by: The Nature Boy on September 01, 2015, 12:03:03 AM
I just pulled up Mapquest and zoomed in on that spot.

I can confirm that that error does exist in Mapquest's own maps.
Title: Re: Mapquest errors
Post by: rickmastfan67 on September 01, 2015, 03:37:32 AM
Verified it's just the 'commercial' version.  The OSM version of MapQuest is rendering correctly.
Title: Re: Mapquest errors
Post by: SectorZ on September 01, 2015, 04:49:06 PM
Quote from: odditude on August 31, 2015, 07:55:26 PM
Quote from: Pete from Boston on August 31, 2015, 06:46:12 PM
What's Mapquest?
it's that site that AltaVista used to take you to.

Best viewed in Netscape Navigator or Opera.
Title: Re: Mapquest errors
Post by: spooky on September 01, 2015, 04:52:13 PM
Quote from: SectorZ on September 01, 2015, 04:49:06 PM
Quote from: odditude on August 31, 2015, 07:55:26 PM
Quote from: Pete from Boston on August 31, 2015, 06:46:12 PM
What's Mapquest?
it's that site that AltaVista used to take you to.

Best viewed in Netscape Navigator or Opera.

I prefer Mosaic.
Title: Re: Mapquest errors
Post by: iBallasticwolf2 on September 08, 2015, 06:55:37 AM
Quote from: spooky on September 01, 2015, 04:52:13 PM
Quote from: SectorZ on September 01, 2015, 04:49:06 PM
Quote from: odditude on August 31, 2015, 07:55:26 PM
Quote from: Pete from Boston on August 31, 2015, 06:46:12 PM
What's Mapquest?
it's that site that AltaVista used to take you to.

Best viewed in Netscape Navigator or Opera.

I prefer Mosaic.
Also MQ is probably well viewed on Internet Explorer 6.
Title: Re: Mapquest errors
Post by: TravelingBethelite on September 08, 2015, 08:06:39 AM
Then what durn fanceh new map site are you guys usin'? maps.google.com (http://maps.google.com) Huh?
Title: Re: Mapquest errors
Post by: jeffandnicole on September 08, 2015, 08:13:04 AM
I think the increase in oil and gasoline use and the ensuing high gas prices in the 2000's can be attributed solely to all of MapQuest's mapping and directional errors.
Title: Re: Mapquest errors
Post by: PHLBOS on September 14, 2015, 04:49:35 PM
When obtaining a set of printed directions for a friend, they were heading from Springfield, Delaware County, PA to Abington, Montgomery County; one of the direction steps inadvertently uses I-495 instead of the correct I-476 route reference.
Title: Re: Mapquest errors
Post by: formulanone on September 14, 2015, 07:06:58 PM
It was nice for a quick check of county lines, but since Mob Rule has that feature (with overlays), so I haven't used Mapquest in a while.
Title: Re: Mapquest errors
Post by: Bickendan on September 15, 2015, 06:10:05 PM
MapQuest has the best looking symbology of the online maps (it's not perfect). So I just use the MQ layer on OSM.