I thought I'd seen a lot of awful and broken websites, and then I learned about MapQuest

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Also it feels like they got their satellite imagery from a dollar store; there are visible seams between every 'tile', clearly no stitching having been done, and there's horrible JPEG compression everywhere, as if they saved it in like 50% quality

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I genuinely do not understand how one can build such a broken system and remain in business, and it's all the more baffling considering how *old* MapQuest is and how they used to be a major provider of map data for mapping and navigation software!

(Their data in the US is a little better, but not by much)

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