TL;DR
- MapQuest is enjoying some fresh attention thanks to its pushback against a few of 2026’s worst trends.
- After resisting politically charged renaming efforts, it’s now giving users a way to see surveillance cameras.
- The new Surveillance Layer reveals Flock cameras, as well as similar solutions from multiple other brands.
Is life in 2026 feeling sufficiently dystopian for you? Between increasingly advanced AI causing us to stress about everything from our jobs to component prices, and the rise of far-right governments around the world, this is definitely not the utopian paradise you might have been hoping for. But from all that horrible mess, one savior has emerged to offer a beacon of hope — just who would have ever thought it would be MapQuest?
MapQuest was great at helping us getting around… 20 years ago, before Google Maps arrived, anyway. And just like so many other turn-of-the-century dot coms, it quickly found itself fading into the background.