MapQuest

MapQuest provides mapping, geocoding, routing, and traffic data APIs for developers to build location-aware applications. The developer portal offers free API keys and documentation for directions, static maps, geocoding, and traffic incident services.

MapQuest publishes 10 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Directions API, and 9 more. Tagged areas include Geocoding, Mapping, Maps, Navigation, and Routing.

The MapQuest catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

MapQuest’s developer surface includes developer portal, getting-started guide, signup flow, support, engineering blog, and 15 more developer resources.

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35.2/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 15/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 68/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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Geocoding Mapping Maps Navigation Routing Traffic

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Composite quality — 35.2/100 · thin

Contract Quality 7.2 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 6.4 / 15

Access Clarity 6.7 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 1.2 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 15/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 0 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship Ask about this →
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey) Ask about this →
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Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes Ask about this →
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Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link Ask about this →

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Contract Quality scores 38.6 — up to +15.4 composite points Ask about this →
Operational Transparency scores 11.9 — up to +11.5 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 42.9 — up to +11.4 composite points Ask about this →

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Geospatial and Maps (OGC standards)	builds-on	34.5 (thin)	-	-
Browser Extension Stores (company-published Firefox add-ons; Chrome Web Store unreadable)	builds-on	34.5 (thin)	-	-
Overture Maps Foundation (members + data contributors)	builds-on	34.5 (thin)	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 10

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

MapQuest Geocoding API

The MapQuest Geocoding API converts addresses into geographic coordinates and vice versa, supporting both single and batch geocoding requests.

MapQuest Static Map API

The MapQuest Static Map API returns a map image based on specified parameters including center, zoom, size, and map type.

MapQuest Traffic API

The MapQuest Traffic API returns traffic incidents for a specified bounding box in JSON or XML formats, including road construction and collisions.

MapQuest Search API

The MapQuest Search API supports radius, rectangle, polygon, and corridor searches against MapQuest hosted data tables, returning matching points of interest with attributes.

MapQuest Place Search API

The MapQuest Place Search API returns places matching a search query, with support for category, location, and bounding-box filtering.

MapQuest Search Ahead API

The MapQuest Search Ahead API delivers prediction-based search suggestions as users type, supporting addresses, places, categories, and admin areas.

MapQuest Geolocation API

The MapQuest Geolocation API returns the approximate location of a device based on cell tower and Wi-Fi access point information.

MapQuest Icons API

The MapQuest Icons API serves customizable map marker icons for use with MapQuest static and interactive maps.

MapQuest Data Manager API

The MapQuest Data Manager API allows developers to upload, manage, and query custom hosted data tables for use with MapQuest search and mapping services.

MapQuest Directions API

The Directions API from MapQuest — 8 operation(s) for directions.

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Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

MapQuest Directions API

OPEN COLLECTION

MapQuest Directions API

OPEN COLLECTION

MapQuest API pricing

Not yet checked against MapQuest's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Professional paid	Free
Enterprise enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against MapQuest's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

MapQuest Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

MapQuest Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

Terms of Service 1

What its API terms permit and prohibit, quoted from its own page.

MapQuest

10 quoted statements, read from MapQuest's own page on 2026-11-10.

TERMS

Eligibility 1

Who may sign up and where, quoted from its own terms.

MapQuest

3 quoted statements, read from MapQuest's own page on 2026-11-10.

ELIGIBILITY

AI Preferences 1

Its stance on AI training, inference and agents, quoted from its own pages.

MapQuest

1 quoted statement, read from MapQuest's own page on 2026-11-10.

AI PREFS

Data License 1

How its data and outputs may be reused, quoted from its own terms.

MapQuest

2 quoted statements, read from MapQuest's own page on 2026-11-10.

LICENSE

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

MapQuest Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

MapQuest API Rules

32 rules · 30 error-severity 1 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 2

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

MapQuest Certification Overlay

4 actions · update · mapquest-openapi.yml

DERIVED

MapQuest Directions Api Certification Overlay

4 actions · update · mapquest-directions-api-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

MapQuest Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

MapQuest Agentic Access

11 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Signup

Signup

Login

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

AIPreferences

AIPreferences

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Support

Support

Commercial 6

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

FinOps

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

UsageTerms

DataLicense

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Eligibility

Eligibility

Source (apis.yml)

aid: mapquest
name: MapQuest
description: MapQuest provides mapping, geocoding, routing, and traffic data APIs for developers to build location-aware applications.
  The developer portal offers free API keys and documentation for directions, static maps, geocoding, and traffic incident
  services.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/mapquest.png
tags:
- Geocoding
- Mapping
- Maps
- Navigation
- Routing
- Traffic
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/mapquest/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2025-01-07'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: mapquest:mapquest-geocoding-api
  name: MapQuest Geocoding API
  description: The MapQuest Geocoding API converts addresses into geographic coordinates and vice versa, supporting both single
    and batch geocoding requests.
  humanURL: https://developer.mapquest.com/documentation/geocoding-api/
  baseURL: https://www.mapquestapi.com/geocoding/v1
  tags:
  - Geocoding
  - Location
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.mapquest.com/documentation/geocoding-api/
- aid: mapquest:mapquest-static-map-api
  name: MapQuest Static Map API
  description: The MapQuest Static Map API returns a map image based on specified parameters including center, zoom, size,
    and map type.
  humanURL: https://developer.mapquest.com/documentation/static-map-api/v5/
  baseURL: https://www.mapquestapi.com/staticmap/v5
  tags:
  - Maps
  - Static Maps
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.mapquest.com/documentation/static-map-api/v5/
- aid: mapquest:mapquest-traffic-api
  name: MapQuest Traffic API
  description: The MapQuest Traffic API returns traffic incidents for a specified bounding box in JSON or XML formats, including
    road construction and collisions.
  humanURL: https://developer.mapquest.com/documentation/traffic-api/
  baseURL: https://www.mapquestapi.com/traffic/v2
  tags:
  - Incidents
  - Traffic
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.mapquest.com/documentation/traffic-api/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://developer.mapquest.com/documentation/api/traffic/incidents/get.html
- aid: mapquest:mapquest-search-api
  name: MapQuest Search API
  description: The MapQuest Search API supports radius, rectangle, polygon, and corridor searches against MapQuest hosted
    data tables, returning matching points of interest with attributes.
  humanURL: https://developer.mapquest.com/documentation/searchapi/
  baseURL: https://www.mapquestapi.com/search/v2
  tags:
  - Points of Interest
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.mapquest.com/documentation/searchapi/
- aid: mapquest:mapquest-place-search-api
  name: MapQuest Place Search API
  description: The MapQuest Place Search API returns places matching a search query, with support for category, location,
    and bounding-box filtering.
  humanURL: https://developer.mapquest.com/documentation/place-search-api/v5/
  baseURL: https://www.mapquestapi.com/search/v5
  tags:
  - Place Search
  - Points of Interest
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.mapquest.com/documentation/place-search-api/v5/
- aid: mapquest:mapquest-search-ahead-api
  name: MapQuest Search Ahead API
  description: The MapQuest Search Ahead API delivers prediction-based search suggestions as users type, supporting addresses,
    places, categories, and admin areas.
  humanURL: https://developer.mapquest.com/documentation/searchahead-api/v5/
  baseURL: https://www.mapquestapi.com/search/v5
  tags:
  - Autocomplete
  - Search
  - Search Ahead
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.mapquest.com/documentation/searchahead-api/v5/
- aid: mapquest:mapquest-geolocation-api
  name: MapQuest Geolocation API
  description: The MapQuest Geolocation API returns the approximate location of a device based on cell tower and Wi-Fi access
    point information.
  humanURL: https://developer.mapquest.com/documentation/geolocation-api/
  baseURL: https://www.mapquestapi.com/geolocation/v1
  tags:
  - Geolocation
  - Location
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.mapquest.com/documentation/geolocation-api/
- aid: mapquest:mapquest-icons-api
  name: MapQuest Icons API
  description: The MapQuest Icons API serves customizable map marker icons for use with MapQuest static and interactive maps.
  humanURL: https://developer.mapquest.com/documentation/icons-api/
  baseURL: https://www.mapquestapi.com/icons/v2
  tags:
  - Icons
  - Maps
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.mapquest.com/documentation/icons-api/
- aid: mapquest:mapquest-data-manager-api
  name: MapQuest Data Manager API
  description: The MapQuest Data Manager API allows developers to upload, manage, and query custom hosted data tables for
    use with MapQuest search and mapping services.
  humanURL: https://developer.mapquest.com/documentation/data-manager-api/v2/
  baseURL: https://www.mapquestapi.com/datamanager/v2
  tags:
  - Custom Data
  - Data Management
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.mapquest.com/documentation/data-manager-api/v2/
- aid: mapquest:mapquest-directions-api
  name: MapQuest Directions API
  description: The Directions API from MapQuest — 8 operation(s) for directions.
  humanURL: https://developer.mapquest.com/documentation/directions-api/
  baseURL: https://www.mapquestapi.com/directions/v2
  tags:
  - Directions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/mapquest-directions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.mapquest.com/documentation/directions-api/
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/mapquest-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/mapquest-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/mapquest-finops.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.mapquest.com/
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/mapquest-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/mapquest-domain-security.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/MapQuest
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mapquest
- type: Portal
  url: https://developer.mapquest.com/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developer.mapquest.com/documentation/
- type: Signup
  url: https://developer.mapquest.com/plan_purchase/steps/business_edition/business_edition_free/register
- type: Login
  url: https://developer.mapquest.com/user/login
- type: Support
  url: https://developer.mapquest.com/support/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://hello.mapquest.com/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://hello.mapquest.com/privacy-policy
- url: https://developer.mapquest.com/blog/archive/
  type: Blog
- type: UsageTerms
  url: terms/mapquest-terms-of-service.yml
- type: Eligibility
  url: eligibility/mapquest-eligibility.yml
- type: AIPreferences
  url: ai-preferences/mapquest-ai-preferences.yml
- type: DataLicense
  url: data-license/mapquest-data-license.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

MapQuest API — frequently asked questions

Does MapQuest have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 10 APIs from MapQuest, including MapQuest Geocoding API, MapQuest Static Map API and MapQuest Traffic API, and 7 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the MapQuest API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 1 OpenAPI specification for MapQuest, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the MapQuest API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for MapQuest, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the MapQuest API ready for AI agents?

MapQuest has a Kin Score of 35.2 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 15.1 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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