Mapquest and CO (telco central office) locations

[Payne Freret]

 9:10 am Thu 20 Nov 2003


> > 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?

> I would be surprised if you were _not_ hallucinating, as
> wire-center boundaries are considered highly confidential,
> and even the locations of the central offices themselves
> (though quite obvious when you drive by one) are not
> supposed to be widely known.

I remember using the CO-location feature to estimate ADSL line
lengths, although I don't recall seeing wire-center boundaries
displayed.

Payne Freret