“The question we still get asked a lot,” said Brian McMahon, MapQuest's top executive, is: “Does MapQuest still exist?” It does — but in much smaller form. MapQuest is the rare American company that changed the world and then gradually became uncool, almost forgotten, in less than a generation.

MapQuest gets their data from their own cartography data developed for its print publications, information from digital mapping companies like NavTech and TeleAtlas, and government databases like the one compiled by the U.S. Postal Service.

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