<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Alex Mauer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hawke@hawkesnest.net">hawke@hawkesnest.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On 07/09/2010 03:50 AM, David Ellams wrote:<br>
> The company, a subsidiary of AOL, plans to announce Friday<br>
> morning that it is launching a site in the U.K. based on a<br>
> project called OpenStreetMap, which is dedicated to<br>
> user-created mapping.<br>
<br>
I wonder why they seem to suggest that it’s UK-only? Scroll far enough<br>
West and the US shows up, sure enough.<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Presumably because the data's not good enough in the US to market it to the whole world. </div></div><br>