MapQuest Developer Blog

We're very pleased to announce that more tools have been released today for the Open Developer Community! Here's the cool new stuff: - Xapi (pronounced 'zappy'): This a read-only OpenStreetMap (OSM) extended API providing enhanced search and querying capability for nodes, ways, and relations...

MapQuest is providing several address files that contain user-provided latitude and longitude locations across the world. Our users provided these exact locations to us so that they could be mapped correctly on our MapQuest maps. There are currently three (3) main files - one for the United...

open.mapquest.com Today, the MapQuest team launched the much anticipated site in the Open series: good ol' US of A open.mapquest.com! Just like the 10 other international sites we've released since July 2010, this one is focused specifically on the United States and uses OpenStreetMap (OSM) data....

Thanks all for helping us with our open.mapquest.* sites embedded map icon survey! We had 74 respondents from all over the world who completed the survey! Here's the breakdown by country: Argentina (1), Austria (1), Belgium (3), Brazil (1), Canada (1), Chile (1), Denmark (2), Finland (1), France ...

Last week, we released some really great new stuff for the MapQuest Platform: address point geocoding data for the United States for our Enterprise Edition customers, a new default static map style for all SDK users and Navteq United States street level geocoding data for our Free Edition folks!...