It’s been well documented that the President of the US, Donald J. Trump, enjoys drawing. From greeting cards to maps of the world, the crayons are out.

One example was his birthday card to his friend the sex trafficker Jeffery Epstein. But recently the President has taken to redrawing the map of the world by naming parts of it ‘America’.

Epstein and Trump together with Release the Epstein Files on it

Firstly there was the Gulf of Mexico rebranded, ‘Gulf of America’, and more recently Lake Ontario scribbled out to make way for ‘Lake America’. In any sane world this use of crayons by an octogenarian would be ignored but sadly this is not a sane world. Google and Apple (in the US) have gone with this change.

Lake Ontario as seen from above in Toronto

A move which completely devalues their sites and the reliability of information on them. Into the frame comes a site which was created in 1996, MapQuest – the first commercial web mapping service.

The company offers a free mobile app for Android and iOS that features POI search, voice-guided navigation, real-time traffic and other features. MapQuest also offers a mobile-friendly website. 

With Google Maps and Apple no longer able to provide accurate information MapQuest provides the alternative.

Click on this link for more information about the MapQuest Mobile Apps.

Click on this link for the MapQuest Website.

Click on this link for the MapQuest Maps.

Fiona Grahame


2 responses to “Find your way with MapQuest”

  1. I was thinking…companies that produce actual, printed, paper maps won’t be in a hurry to change names to suit Trump as they’ll know that when he’s gone they’ll have the expense of changing them back again. And he will be gone, then all this non-sense can be gone too.

    I was also thinking that Canada could change the name of its lakes to the names of the girls/women known to have been abused by Trump – but does Canada have enough lakes to be able to do so?

    1. Good question! (from Canada)

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