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

[David Murn]

On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 17:26 -0600, Toby Murray wrote:
> What makes you think this is an extract?

The subject line specifically says "launched for the US", and the first
line of the original email said "Very very proud to announce that we
have launched the US [link] site".  I therefore assumed that it was a US
site, I dont know what I was thinking.

>  Did you try scrolling over to Europe?

I clicked the link when I first replied to this email an hour ago, but
it timed out while loading.  After reloading, while writing this email,
the page finally displayed its splash screen (maybe thats why it took so
long, loading the mapquest pop-up splash-screen).

The interface seems quite slow and jumpy (no smooth scrolling or
zooming), compared to slippymap, and roads seem to be marked strangely.
Looking at a state level, I see lots of town names, even of smaller
towns, but some larger ones were missing.  There was only one main
highway shown.  When I start zooming into a city, some roads (or parts
of the roads) show up more bold than others of a similar rating, and by
the time I zoom in enough to see residential streets, every street is
drawn the same, whether its a motorway or a parking service lane.  The
one exception to this, seems to be turning_circles, which appear at
least 5x wider than the road.

Ive also noticed while you have attiribution at the bottom, I cant find
a permalink.  Is (was?) it not a requirement of the licence to have a
permalink on the map display, or is this just an unwritten rule that
everyone complies with?

David

> 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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