Maybe a strange thing with mapquest. I moved a couple

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?

I think.

Perhaps it's coincidence you live on the same street?

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?

if you dont enter an address, Mapquest will give directions from the geographic center of the city or town.

pretty unique name and when it popped up, I was surprised.

you must have, at some point, put you address in something...cookies can seem like magic...

subjectProdigal

Firefox. Hell, I don't know what it is. Pretty Strange.

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.

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?

and mapquest knows how to read it.