The site is one of three internet services used by Wikipedia for providing topographic maps. It arose to prominence in May 2008 after TopoZone through its new trails.com owners required payment for access to its maps. TopoQuest map links are the same as Topozone's except for the difference in the domain.
The domain was registered at Go Daddy to Sunset Dynamics on August 10, 2004.[2]
However Niemi did not aggressively develop the website because of the success of Topozone.
After Topozone started the for pay business model on April 8, 2008, Niemi made updates to get the website to match the Topozone URL methodology for viewing 1:24K USGSDigital raster graphic maps available from the Libre Map Project and Internet Archive and was operating by May 2008.[1]
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