[OSM-talk] Response to A critique of OpenStreetMap
Shaun McDonald
shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk
Sat Oct 16 12:28:13 BST 2010
On 16 Oct 2010, at 11:31, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Peter Körner <osm-lists at mazdermind.de> wrote:
>> Am 15.10.2010 12:11, schrieb Valent Turkovic:
>>>
>>> On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:41:30 -0400, Anthony wrote:
>>>
>>>> Once OSM goes ODbL, I'd expect that Mapquest will stop licensing their
>>>> tiles under a free license.
>>>
>>> They distribute it now for free? Why?
>>
>> They are forced to by the CC-BY-SA License.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>
> Sorry for this lame question, but on mapquest.com site I only see (c)
> by NAVTEQ, no mention of OSM, why?!?
> Do they use OSM data?
> I see some more detailed data in some parts than on OSM has so I guess
> they have licenced it from somewhere else, or they combine NAVTEQ and
> OSM data?
open.mapquest.co.uk
open.mapquest.de
open.mapquest.es
etc.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MapQuest has more info.
Shaun
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