[Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] Mapquest launches site based on OSM!

Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com
Fri Jul 9 11:48:28 BST 2010


Cool,
Thanks for the summery, i saw this on my news feed.
Its great to be noticed. Will be interesting to see what the editor is like.

Cheers,
Sam

On 7/9/10, David Ellams <osmlists at dellams.fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/07/09/aols-mapquest-looks-to-wikipedia-model-for-mapping/
>
>
> Excerpts:
>
> MapQuest, the No. 2 Internet-mapping service after Google’s, is
> taking the first steps toward a Wikipedia-like model — in which
> users would generate the maps themselves and combine the results
> for everyone to use.
>
> The company, a subsidiary of AOL, plans to announce Friday
> morning that it is launching a site in the U.K. based on a
> project called OpenStreetMap, which is dedicated to
> user-created mapping.
>
> [...]
>
> The main MapQuest site will still use mapping data that the
> company purchases, but the idea is that eventually, MapQuest maps
> could rely on many users who keep track of their own corner of
> the world.
>
> “We fundamentally believe that community-contributed mapping will
> be better than any closed platform,” said Jon Brod, the executive
> vice president of AOL Ventures, Local and Mapping, in an
> interview with Digits.
>
>
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