[OSM-talk] proprietary and unrelated images on the about page

Pieren pieren3 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 2 13:16:52 UTC 2013


On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer
<dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:

> Going from left to right, of 4 (identifiable) images only 1 is OSM related
> (the watercolour rendering), while the mapbox rendering doesn't show osm
> data (besides maybe the coastline), the country map is apparently created by
> mapquest from proprietary data: http://mapq.st/IxufcH and the image to the
> right shows 3D-elevation contours, something that OSM doesn't offer or
> provide.

For sure, contour lines are not part of OSM but it makes nice images.
It's all about marketing ;-)

Pieren



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