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Create customized and crisp maps with the new Static Map API

We recently launched an updated version of our Static Map API, including enhancements like you’ve never seen before. If you aren’t familiar, our Static Map API allows you to create a map image that can be placed in your applications, websites, email campaigns, or print media. Enhancements to Static Map API, v5, include:​ Retina Maps: Maps […]

Thomas Horacek

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Q&A Series: COVID-19 & The Banking and Finance Industry | MapQuest Developer Blog

COVID-19 has had a dramatic impact on nearly every business, regardless of industry or geographic location. With businesses now having to navigate new, unchartered waters, many are searching for reliable and trusted information so that they can make informed decisions. In this Q&A, banking and finance industry expert, Josh Wilkinson of MapQuest for Business, answers five […]

Josh Wilkinson

Q&A Series: COVID-19 & The Healthcare Industry | MapQuest Developer Blog

COVID-19 has had a dramatic impact on nearly every business, regardless of industry or geographic location. With businesses now having to navigate new, unchartered waters, many are searching for reliable and trusted information so that they can make informed decisions on behalf of their companies and customers. In this Q&A, healthcare industry expert, Carol Marcoux of MapQuest for […]

Carol Marcoux

Why Geocoding is the Next Step Up in Patient Care | MapQuest Developer Blog

The way patients are provided with life-saving healthcare is changing. Electronic medical records (EMR) have transformed a caregiver’s ability to create a full picture of a patient’s needs in a way that wasn’t possible in decades past. Simultaneously, there is an ever-increasing need to travel to patients who may be limited by a variety of […]

John Chipouras

MapQuest for Business at RSA Conference 2018 | MapQuest Developer Blog

This April, the MapQuest for Business team traveled to San Francisco to attend RSA Conference in San Francisco, CA. We participated in conjunction with our parent company, Verizon, representing our division as Verizon Location Services (VLS). RSA Conference is a week-long, internationally recognized event with more than 40,000 attendees. RSA conducts information security events around […]

Candice Peaslee

Deprecation Notice: TLS 1.0-1.1 for secure connections to Open APIs

If you are an Open API user of MapQuest, the following information will affect you. Please keep reading. On June 18th, MapQuest is deprecating support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 for all HTTPS connections to open customer API proxies. The MapQuest Open URL affected includes https://open.mapquestapi.com. Both TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 will be […]

Bri Gust

New Product Alert: Mobile Navigation SDK | MapQuest Developer Blog

We’re extremely excited to announce the launch of our new Mobile Navigation SDK for Android and iOS applications. Backed by our decades-long geospatial experience, our Mobile Navigation SDK provides you turn-by-turn navigation and real-time traffic updates. Not only control your brand experience by keeping users within your native host application, but also customize the experience […]

Mike Wille

Now Available: The MapQuest Place Search API

Replacing the legacy Search API, we are excited to announce a new and improved version, titled Place Search API! The newly available Place Search API, like our Search Ahead API, offers access to our next generation backend spatial search engines and boasts many of the features that users of our Search Ahead API have come to […]

Bri Gust

Required Action: Whitelist New MapQuest IP Addresses

It’s 2018, and we’re getting up to speed! We are currently in the process of migrating our infrastructure away from AOL and into AWS. Because of this change, you will need to whitelist the following MapQuest IP addresses and remove the old ones: Add- • 34.227.250.99 • 34.239.87.216 • 54.84.207.87 • 34.214.138.249 • 35.160.154.162 • 52.39.4.3 Remove- • 64.12.106.130 […]

Bri Gust

Amazon Deliveries Depend on MapQuest for Business

Have you ever wondered how Amazon.com can quickly, accurately and reliably deliver millions of packages throughout North America? Well, it’s likely that your last Amazon purchase was delivered through Key Software Systems’ Xcelerator software, powered by MapQuest for Business. Objectives: Replace outdated geospatial services vendor with a future-proof provider. Quickly and seamlessly integrate geospatial APIs […]

Steven Toole

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