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

[Toby Murray]

What makes you think this is an extract? Did you try scrolling over to Europe?

Also the .com domain is only the latest one to be rolled out. These
sites have all been online for several months already:
http://open.mapquest.co.uk/
http://open.mapquest.in/
http://open.mapquest.it/
http://open.mapquest.fr/
http://open.mapquest.de/

And I think 5 others.

Toby

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 5:12 PM, David Murn <davey at incanberra.com.au> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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