[OSM-talk] Mapquest launches site based on OSM!

Ian Dees ian.dees at gmail.com
Fri Jul 9 22:42:16 BST 2010


On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Alex Mauer <hawke at hawkesnest.net> wrote:

> On 07/09/2010 03:50 AM, David Ellams wrote:
> > The company, a subsidiary of AOL, plans to announce Friday
> > morning that it is launching a site in the U.K. based on a
> > project called OpenStreetMap, which is dedicated to
> > user-created mapping.
>
> I wonder why they seem to suggest that it’s UK-only?  Scroll far enough
> West and the US shows up, sure enough.
>
>
Presumably because the data's not good enough in the US to market it to the
whole world.
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