Mapquest and CO (telco central office) locations

Wed Nov 19 16:58:18 PST 2003

On a few occasions in the not-so-distant past, I had noticed that
Mapquest provided a capability to enter the area code and prefix of
a telephone number, and it (mapquest) would then depict the area
served by that area code/prefix combination.

In each of the cases I tried where I knew the location in question,
it also identifed the location of the CO (central office), by a
star in the center of the generated map.

A few weeks ago, I happened to mention to someone that this neat
capability existed; when I tried to demonstrate it, I found that
it apparently no longer exists.

Is anyone else able to confirm that -- about this, anyway -- I was,
in fact, not hallucinating?  And does anyone know either how to
recover this capability or know that it was removed for some
set of reasons?

Thanks,
david
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