MapQuest refused to go along, and users apparently liked that answer: The 30-year-old service shot to No. 1 among free apps in Apple’s U.S. and Canadian App Stores. " We’re not changing it ," the company wrote on X, along with other defiant posts.

Mapquest was there in 1996, almost a decade before modern-day Google Maps. It is the world’s first online mapping and turn-by-turn direction service. The name Mapquest was synonymous with finding directions. In the 1950s, when the company first started ...

MapQuest, the original internet mapping service, is the No. 1 Navigation app and the No. 8 overall free app in the U.S. Apple App Store, and the No. 2