[Talk-us] AOL Patch and OpenStreetMap

[Bryce Nesbitt]

On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Mike N <niceman at att.net> wrote:

>   I now see Google used for the "Yard sales in the area" map.   Just a
> guess: the Patch staff doesn't have resources for a map developer to create
> that set of interactive features using MapQuest Open.  It was easier for
> them to just get a Google Maps API account and be able to use Google's
> GeoCoder.   I hope they aren't paying zillions of $ for that small extra
> capability.
>

Doing that in OSM is not hard.  But... in a significant nod to Google,
google's goecoder is far better than anything osm can manage.

It's a shame: patch as a hyperlocal news portal, with lots of citizen
contributions, really is a perfect match to a map with the same
background.  The OSM maps are so much more rich at when zoomed in to that
kind of scale.
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