In respose to Hacker's inquiry, here's the Perl script for creating the atlas pages from the Mapquest main page. You'll have to pass in the Mapquest page as a shell argument (or in my case a stripped down version of that page).
I'm a real novice at Perl, so please have some leniency with my klutsy approach!
--Ash.
#!/usr/bin/perl
#---- read the input file into the wholePage string
$wholePage = "";
while (<>)
{
$wholePage .= $_;
}
#---- extract the region codes from wholePage into an array
@regionCodes = ();
do
{
push(@regionCodes, $1);
}
while $wholePage =~ /region=(.*?)"/g;
#---- write an HTML atlas page for each region code
foreach $region (@regionCodes)
{
$newFilePath = $region . "Atlas.html";
open(hNewFile, "> $newFilePath")
or die "Couldn't open $path for writing: $!\n";
print hNewFile
"<html>
<p><img src=\"http:\/\/cdn\.mapquest\.com\/mqatlasenglish\/$region\"><\/p>
<p><img src=\"http:\/\/cdn\.mapquest\.com\/mqatlaslocators\/$region\"><\/p>
<\/html>";
close(hNewFile);
}