I really was… just the other day, lamenting the apparent demise of MapQuest.com. I can’t remember the last time I’d used it instead of Google Maps (I think the problem was typing that “q” the pinky on my left hand just has a hard time getting there). I can’t remember the last time I saw anyone else use it. It has to have been at least a couple of years. I imagined a dwindling and impoverished staff still clinging to the memories of what once was, breaks your heart.

But!! Good news the once king of the hill beaten by google is back and on the iphone, and it talks to you…

MapQuest has released the “MapQuest 4 Mobile” iPhone app. It sports Voice Guidance and Off-Route Assistance if you stray off course. It finds the closest Hotel, Resturant, Shopping Center, Gas, Coffee Shop, Post Office, Parking Garage, Grocery Store, School, and Traffic (yeah I doubt the last one works very well but nice and ambitious).

Here is the link to the blog over at mapquest and a link to the app