Mapquest and CO (telco central office) locations

Wed Nov 19 17:24:07 PST 2003

I don't recall the capability you're talking about in
mapquest (or anywhere else), but broadbandreports.com can map
an address to a CO; this isn't quite what you want,
but its pretty close...

	Neil

David Wolfskill wrote:
> 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