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.
I use Organic Maps as my standard maps app which is an Open Street Map based app. I find it’s pretty good but can be a bit lost around heavy traffic. Cycling is definitely an option. I’ve not seen “collaborative lists” in the software but I’ll take a look. I sometimes use the google maps web service because for some reason Open Street Maps doesn’t display suburb when searching for a location and it can be really confusing to figure our which one you are looking for.