As announced at the State of the Map conference, AOL's Mapquest is now the first major online map site to adopt OpenStreetMap.<br><br>Check out the site: <a href="http://open.mapquest.co.uk/">http://open.mapquest.co.uk/</a><br>
<br>Here's the PR: <a href="http://corp.aol.com/2010/07/09/mapquest-opens-up-in-europe-with-open-source-mapping-with-uk-l/">http://corp.aol.com/2010/07/09/mapquest-opens-up-in-europe-with-open-source-mapping-with-uk-l/</a><br>
Here's the blog post: <a href="http://blog.mapquest.com/2010/07/09/mapquest-opens-up/">http://blog.mapquest.com/2010/07/09/mapquest-opens-up/</a><br>Here's the development blog post: <a href="http://devblog.mapquest.com/2010/07/09/mapquest-opens-up-uk/">http://devblog.mapquest.com/2010/07/09/mapquest-opens-up-uk/</a><br>
<br>This site is mainly geared towards the UK, but has map rendering for the entire world. See Metro Manila: <a href="http://open.mapquest.co.uk/mq/5-OIAmuNcMDWoD_A14t65N">http://open.mapquest.co.uk/mq/5-OIAmuNcMDWoD_A14t65N</a><br>
The cartography is gorgeous! I would recommend Mapquest's tiles for general purpose maps than OSM's default Mapnik layer, which tends to show everything.<br><br>In addition, AOL-Mapquest will invest $1,000,000 to improve the OSM data in the US. (Can we have $1,000 for the Philippines? :-D)<br>
<br>I found it interesting that Mapquest actually badgered (with financial incentives) the developers of Mapnik (the rendering software) and Nominatim (the search engine and geocoder) to add improvements to those software.<br>
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