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

John F. Eldredge john at jfeldredge.com
Sat Dec 18 01:24:17 GMT 2010


They did, indeed, pick a region, the USA, where the bulk of the data came from the TIGER database import, just as you say they should have done.  So, why are you complaining?

-------Original Email-------
Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] open.mapquest.com launched for the US
From  :mailto:davey at incanberra.com.au
Date  :Fri Dec 17 17:12:48 America/Chicago 2010


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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