February 21, 2025

MapQuest is letting you name the Gulf of Mexico whatever you want

This article was originally published on Mashable by Alex Perry.

Younger readers may not remember this, but Google Maps wasn’t always the default way to look up how to get places.

Way back in the day, people would use paper maps, but there was an interim period for a while where a lot of people used a website called MapQuest. Well, MapQuest is not only still around, but we’ve actually got a reason to use it in 2025. Sort of. If you go to a special Gulf of Mexico-themed part of MapQuest, you can type in anything you want, and it’ll generate a map that renames the Gulf of Mexico after whatever you typed in.

 

Read the full article on Mashable.