[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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