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Category: News & Updates

  • 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
  • Millions of Accurate Real Estate Appraisals Depend on MapQuest for Business

    What’s the best way to enable lenders and appraisers to perform millions of real estate appraisals using comparable properties in the area? The answer for Lansdale, Pa.-based Global DMS®, is MapQuest for Business. Automating the Entire Valuation Process To help Global DMS users perform appraisals accurately and efficiently, the company developed eTrac®, a valuation management […]

    Steven Toole
  • New Release: MapQuest.js, v1.2

    Today we are launching a point release, version v1.2, of our MapQuest.js product. This release focuses on bug fixes, adding additional options and events, as well as the introduction of a new directions control. A few small improvements to point out include an upgrade to our Leaflet.js library dependency from 1.1.0 to 1.2.0. You can […]

    Thomas Horacek

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