maps

[jfb]

I bought myself a road atlas, for the big cross-country trip. It's the 2003 Mobil Road Atlas, the 45th anniversary edition, remaindered at Borders for $4.99. Printed in Canada, it's a product of ExxonMobil Travel Publications. It's also somehow connected to MapQuest, whose logo, along with Mobil's red Pegasus, appears on every page. I chose this road atlas because it was cheap, and because somehow the coloring of the maps felt very online to me. I wanted to be modern.

On the map of downtown Denver, around the corner of 17th and Market, is a little dot labeled with the MapQuest logo. I assume this is (or was) the location of MapQuest's headquarters. In the process of failing to confirm this, I learned:

• MapQuest was founded in the 1960s in Lancaster, PA.
  
• MapQuest is now a unit of AOL, headquartered in Dulles, VA.
  
• If you click on "Careers" on the MapQuest web site, you will be redirected to the jobs page at America Online. If you click on "Job Search" at AOL, you will be sent off to the jobs page for all of AOL Time Warner. From there, you can narrow your search to the America Online division, but not to MapQuest.

Comments

[bushmiller.livejournal.com]

It's weird how italicized fonts look different. It wasn't until I just re-read this blog post in my RSS reader that I realized you didn't want to be a "modem" and you wanted to be "modern."

Which reminds me of a number of funny scatalogical misreadings of common phrases, but I won't sully Erik's LJ up with them.

Hi ho.

--sean

MapQuest

[(Anonymous)]

MapQuest did (and maybe still does) have an office at that location. I think it was the headquarters but don't quote me. Denver is one hell of a boring city.