harrison
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Wed Dec-21-05 02:25 PM
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Maybe a strange thing with mapquest. I moved a couple |
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weeks ago to a new address. Course I had to get things officially changed over through a utility department. I live in a small town. Since that time I used mapquest to find a location in a city. I only plugged in the name of my small town and the address of my destination. I didn't use my name nor my new address and I haven't used my new address on this computer.
However, when the specific directions from mapquest came up, it started from the street I am now living on.
Now, how in the world did Mapquest know the street I was living on? Again, when I signed in to Mapquest, I didn't use my name or my street address. I just used the name of my small town.
Any answers?
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Wed Dec-21-05 02:26 PM
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Wed Dec-21-05 02:29 PM
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5. and you thunk correctly |
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Wed Dec-21-05 02:27 PM
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3. Well mapquest picks a random street to start at by itself. |
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Perhaps it's coincidence you live on the same street?
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Wed Dec-21-05 02:28 PM
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4. I think it's cookies on your hard drive. Nothing to worry about. n/t |
harrison
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Wed Dec-21-05 02:35 PM
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8. Question: I have never typed my new address on my |
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computer. How would cookies be an explanation? Obviously, my name is all over the hard drive. How does Mapquest then get my new street when I have never typed it on my computer? The only place I have placed this new address is with changing my 911 account, and the local utlities. One is a cooperative and the other is with our small town government?
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Wed Dec-21-05 02:31 PM
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6. It's the NSA. Haven't you heard? (nt) |
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Wed Dec-21-05 02:34 PM
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7. do you live near the center of your town? |
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if you dont enter an address, Mapquest will give directions from the geographic center of the city or town.
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harrison
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Wed Dec-21-05 02:36 PM
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9. No. I am not from the center of the town. The street has a |
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pretty unique name and when it popped up, I was surprised.
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Wed Dec-21-05 02:38 PM
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10. mapquest has no way of knowing |
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you must have, at some point, put you address in something...cookies can seem like magic...
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harrison
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Wed Dec-21-05 03:01 PM
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11. Cleaned out the cookies and it still keeps happening. I use |
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Firefox. Hell, I don't know what it is. Pretty Strange.
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Wed Dec-21-05 03:04 PM
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Wed Dec-21-05 03:05 PM
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14. Don't trust their directions either........ |
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they had me making a 4hr trip to a location that is 1 1/2 hrs away. I just use it to ballpark the area I want to go to.
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Wed Dec-21-05 03:11 PM
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16. I just used it yesterday |
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and it told me to take a left turn - the place I was looking for was on my right. But when I asked for directions, Mapquest asked for the starting address. I've never had it just insert my own address.
Is it possible that they correlated the IP address with a physical address?
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Wed Dec-21-05 03:06 PM
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15. Your ISP knows where you are at |
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and mapquest knows how to read it.
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