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

John Mitchell mitchelljj98 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 18 14:28:10 GMT 2010


If I use googlemaps or the old classic mapquest for driving directions in
the US it always finds the addresses that I am looking for but using the new
mapquest in most cases does not because of the incomplete address
information that it is using.  If I am a user and I can't find an address
within mapquest and then go to googlemaps and find it then I would not try
the new mapquest again.

Why can't Mapquest donate the addresses that they currently use within the
old mapquest (classic) to openstreetmap so that it has the complete address
information?

John

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Toby Murray <toby.murray at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 6:27 PM, John Mitchell <mitchelljj98 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I tried searching by my home address and it could not find it.  When I
> tried
> > it on Mapquest classic it found that same address.
>
> They use nominatim for their open.mapquest.* sites so if you can find
> your house on openstreetmap.org then you should be able to find it on
> open.mapquest.*
>
> If you can't, then you need to map it! Works for me. Although I don't
> think nominatim understands saying <address> "in" <city> - rather you
> can use a comma or nothing at all between the street name and the
> city.
>
> Toby
>



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John J. Mitchell
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