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.
Resistance at even the smallest level matters.
Yep, this orange motherfucker shouldn’t be able to do anything without going through court to force it to happen, and even then ignore it until someone shows up to MAKE you do it. Use his own bullshit against him.
Mapquest still exists? Encarta it!
Yeah right. Going to get that AOL disc that came with PCGamer and check if I’ve got mail next.
I asked Jeeves, and he told me it still exists. To celebrate, I played some Neopets and then logged into a fun MUSH game.
Not a single idea or policy or point of view espoused by MAGA is genuinely popular. It’s all bots, bullshit, and voter suppression.
Once again Going Woke doesn’t equal Going Broke
MapQuest needs to add Android Auto support. Loving the icons, though!
Second that
The whole renaming thing is a distraction tactic at best.
I personally am a huge fan of CoMaps. It uses OSM data
Seconding CoMaps.
Completely replaced google maps for me a while back. It works as in-car navigation (with GPS audio queues for when noone else is doing nav), downloading maps is a highlighted feature instead of being burried in menus and it does not live sync to traffic or ask for route changes. It simply does its job and does not ask for your attention after it gets going.
Ok but what if Mitch McConnell became an obsessive OSM contributor months ago and that’s why we have no news?
There’s enough of a non American user base to counter it.
I’ve been using OsmAnd. I tried CoMaps and I found it really clunky. I set it up to try on a drive home from work since I know the route. I put my address in and it brings me to the street somewhere in the city, but not to my address?
Fair enough. Open source software is something that continually improves as it gets into the hands of more people and they all voice their concerns. That’s the whole point. It’s software for people and not corporations.
I know this is just a diversion from Epstein and the Iran war but I am curious, what is the proper procedure in the US for geophical name changes, I doubt it is executive orders, according to the law those executive orders by themselves don’t do anything in this regard, do they?
They changed Mt. McKinley (back) to Denali while Obama was president.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denali–Mount_McKinley_naming_dispute?wprov=sfla1
Seems like it actually originated in the Alaska state legislature. According to wiki, they requested the name change in 1975 and I guess it was just ignored by the federal government until 2015 when Obama’s Interior Secretary changed the name.
Trump is such a sore loser.
USA is not a Democracy when one man (President) can decide how something will be named. It seems that President have unlimited power, he can do whatever he want, manipulate markets in a most corruptive way, incarcerate who ever he want, bomb and kill at his will.
And tape kids
Obama renamed Denali and this guy’s been crying to prove anything Obama can change, he can change faster
Alaskans already asked for that like 50 years before though.
My last hope for this to be not true will be tested in November, depending on the result, I’ll finally declare USA as Fascism. But even if not, the next presidential election needs to be an entire (progressive/socialistic) turnaround, to stop this continuous degeneration of “democracy”, and there’s a lot of damage of this administration, that needs repair over the next decades.
The US is fascist.
I’m convinced that the most optimal way forward is for it to split. Why the fuck do California or New York have to keep financing a bunch of fascist mouthbreathers with genocidal tendencies? I don’t think it’s possible for the country to recover as one, whole swaths of it literally need cult deprogramming.
As I said, it certainly does have a lot of fascist tendencies, but I wouldn’t declare it fascist (yet) as long as elections are still somewhat proper, that’s why i said November is an interesting date. I think for this to be actual fascism (also do not devalue the actual fascisms we have/had so far), democracy needs to be almost entirely oppressed. We’ve seen in New York that there’s still at least a little bit of hope, for this to be turned around.
But I agree, it needs a lot of cult deprogramming, and I’m very much concerned about the mental health of the average american…
I would definitely say we have a fascist government. I do not think we have a dictatorship yet, but I do think that’s the goal of the current right wing.
What do you make of all their attempts to restrict voting for the upcoming election, including having lists of “eligible” (read: Republican) voters? It’s not just one or two bills either, they’re pushing this with all of their energy, including petitioning SCROTUS for emergency measures.
Is this not enough to call it fascist? Why do they need to have success before you call something for what it is? Someone with homicidal tendencies is a threat before they kill someone, why do pedophile fascists get a pass?
I’m convinced that the most optimal way forward is for it to split. You and what army are gonna accomplish that lol?
so the army is probably still in power of trump but let’s say the midterms are very obvious in favor for the democrats. i doubt that the army is very much interested in supporting this fascism further, Trump has already disgraced himself in front of all the leaders in the army, they’re not very keen of Trump.
That is a much different statement than the one above implying that states could potentially secede. Even with the lows we’ve sunk to, secession has basically no popular will behind it and guarantees bloodshed.
I wish there were more competitors for products like Google Photos. I would switch, but I’m so ingrained at this point that I don’t know if there is any leaving.
Have a look at Ente. I’ve completely moved over to it from GPhotos. I did so originally for privacy reasons (end-to-end encryption &etc) but the 10G of free storage is plenty for me and their web/phone apps are good.
I looked at it. It’s inexpensive. The last thing holding me back is changing the email to my proton one for 100 accounts across the web.
Anything that doesn’t require self hosting or Linux knowledge?
I just use iCloud 🤷♂️
Caveat, I don’t take pictures for the purpose of saving them. Like family photos or events or whatever. So I’m not really in the market for such a service.
Anything that doesn’t require self hosting or Linux knowledge?
Send me all of your photos. I might send them back to you upon request, if I feel like it at the time.
https://ente.com/ doesn’t require self-hosting (or Linux-fu) but you can self-host if you want to. The company is a darling company among tech nerds for that fact plus the focus on security+privacy plus being open-source and having a generous free tier plan. The company has channeled its success into a few different directions, such as a 2FA authenticator app and also into something that looks like a secure/encrypted Google Drive, which sounds interesting but I haven’t tried it yet since I don’t do a lot of cloud-storing of files.
Seconded, I’ve been using Ente for a couple of years now and I still love it. I pay five bucks a month for 200 GB.
Fun fact: one of their redundant data centers is in a bomb shelter. Just in case, y’know?
I just did some research and Proton Drive does do photos and automatically backs up your phone photos. I’m not sure if they will pass the Lemmy Purity Test™ though.
Ente is another alternative, and hasn’t been in any controversy (so far). They have a great 2FA app too.
I’m not self-hosting anything. I’m not into all that.
That’s a choice you make. But you can’t say you wish there was a competitor and then when one is presented you scoff at it.
Are you dense? I wished for a competitor, you mentioned a completely different solution. That’s like me saying I want a Big Mac, and then you giving me a recipe to make a hamburger at home. Like, yeah, I’m sure it’s better, but I’m not cooking that shit.
You not making food at home is again, your choice.
A Big Mac and a hamburger at home are still both foods.
Keep doing them mental gymnastics.
“I wish there was a good console competitor for Sony and Xbox.”
“Here’s a pen and paper, play tic tac toe.”
That’s not a competitor if you have to self host. I self host it to move away from Google but I would not call it a competitor.
That’s what the monopolies hope.
Ok, cool comment.
I remember printing out directions from Mapquest back in the 2000’s. Time is a flat circle.
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.
Apple Maps still shows it as its real name, although they eventually capitulated to the dumb alternate name to the Gulf of Mexico. I doubt it’ll last long.
Apple maps suck peniz
Apple maps also took forever to update on the gulf change so I expect you are correct.
Honestly find this kind of frustrating; it reminds me of the exodus from Twitter to Bluesky. Everyone is jumping ship from one private, proprietary, for-profit service to another without seemingly learning any lesson. It seems like just kicking the enshitification slightly further down the road.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System1 at least as a stopgap, a small-ish adtech company that may or may not be privacy focused (their claim) is still better than Google. But yeah.
Just to see the clear message in app metrics is a good thing though.
Deleted by author
I’m giving Comaps a try. I try OsmAnd every few months and always have issues with it, but Comaps has been solid (for all of 2 round trips so far lol).
Very mixed feelings on System1. I was digging into a Firefox forks and dismissed Waterfox because of the connection. Totally willing to believe they’re better than Google (like Bluesky to Twitter) but that’s such a low bar.
The problem with Open alternatives is the lack of real-time traffic data.
Taking a stand against fash trash corpos will necessarily require some level of inconvenience, in the best case.
Well this place is fast becoming reddit so I don’t think you’re wrong.
Canada should rename Lake Superior to Lake Obama, “because Obama is Superior”.
“because Obama is Superior”
I love that idea. This phrase makes it super-easy to remember the name change and what went before.
And the new mnemonic is HOME-O
Just call it Lake Obama is Superior
Love this! They should just add Obama so it reads ‘Lake Superior Obama’
And the Persian Lake is still Persian.
