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

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Elizabeth Dodd <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
>
> I agree with David, that this shows a view of the world which is
> distorted, ignoring Asia where most humans actually reside, and ignoring
> Africa at the same time.
> A useful thing would be an honest comparison of what is available
> through Mapquest through their original sources of data, and what is
> available if Mapquest uses OSM.

Liz and David,

Mapquest does use the whole world's data in their Open Mapquest sites.
They just roll out country-specific sites to provide proper
localization. But all of the world's data is available on any of their
Open websites.

In fact, I can go to any of the Open websites, scroll over to my
country, and get driving directions:
http://open.mapquest.com/link/8-Ua19

In addition, since they don't have data for my country from other
providers, they show OSM data instead in their main (non-Open)
website, though only as tiles.

Eugene