[OSM-talk] open.mapquest.com launched for the US

[David Murn]

On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 08:06 -0500, Antony Pegg wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Very very proud to announce that we have launched the US 
> http://open.MapQuest.com site

Just out of interest, why did you choose to extract only the continental
united states out of the entire worlds data that the project has?
Surely this leads to more effort at startup and down-the-line, as you
need to keep the data up-to-date and have to extract only a very small
subset of the data available.

Does MapQuest have interest in maps from around the world, or is this
more a 'we provide maps for those we can advertise to'?  If Mapquest
wanted to show off the usefulness of OSM data, wouldnt you be using data
from Europe or Asia, or for that matter, any place where a bulk of the
data was imported directly from a public db (TIGER).

David