Re: [OSM-talk] some notes, ostensibly from MapQuest (sorry if this is spam)

2010-10-19 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Antony Pegg wrote: > open.mapquest.in for India - rather big deal for mapQuest actually.  First > site out of EU & NA we've done in...a looong time. All thanks to the power > of OSM.  Comments from co-workers in our Banglaor office were very > enthusiastic. Hoping

Re: [OSM-talk] some notes, ostensibly from MapQuest (sorry if this is spam)

2010-10-19 Thread Antony Pegg
Thanks for your good wishes :) your active support provides a lift beneath my wings. On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Anthony wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Antony Pegg > wrote: > > Or, to put it another, even simpler way, Anthony - I hope that in some > small > > way, when you hav

Re: [OSM-talk] some notes, ostensibly from MapQuest (sorry if this is spam)

2010-10-19 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Antony Pegg wrote: > Or, to put it another, even simpler way, Anthony - I hope that in some small > way, when you have a choice of commercial map/directions vendors to use for > some / any reason (if you ever do, not to offend your refined cartographic > abilities

Re: [OSM-talk] some notes, ostensibly from MapQuest (sorry if this is spam)

2010-10-19 Thread Antony Pegg
Very simply... the more people that use our Open stuff (tiles, services, sites, etc) the more we demonstrate value / presence / brand recognition to our larger organization. The more we demonstrate value, the more we'll be allowed to do that benefits the community, like sponsoring Wherecamp 5280

Re: [OSM-talk] some notes, ostensibly from MapQuest (sorry if this is spam)

2010-10-19 Thread Antony Pegg
yeah - thats something on the bug list to work on - its a hangover from the main consumer code, where its expected that you actually search for something instead of just navigating to the area of map you want to see. Trust me, its on the list, sorry - single code base, different audiences On Tue

Re: [OSM-talk] some notes, ostensibly from MapQuest (sorry if this is spam)

2010-10-19 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/20 Antony Pegg : > can you give me a couple of example links from the Link box please? (on the > MQ interface, above the search box, next to the Send To box) the linking function doesn't seem to work, I'm in India at Zoom 4 according to the tooltip in the zoom controller. http://open.ma

Re: [OSM-talk] some notes, ostensibly from MapQuest (sorry if this is spam)

2010-10-19 Thread Antony Pegg
the tiles update every 15 minutes, Nominatim data 2-24 hours, routing data overnight. can you give me a couple of example links from the Link box please? (on the MQ interface, above the search box, next to the Send To box) It wont be an update issue, but it might be either data in the area, or th

Re: [OSM-talk] some notes, ostensibly from MapQuest (sorry if this is spam)

2010-10-19 Thread Antony Pegg
To clarify, before someone reads too much into it, when I say I don't care , its just this particular application - of course generally I think the sooner the odbl happens the better as it clears everything up for us ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetm

Re: [OSM-talk] some notes, ostensibly from MapQuest (sorry if this is spam)

2010-10-19 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
how often do you update? To me it seems that there are no streets in low zoomlevels? Cheers, Martin ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] some notes, ostensibly from MapQuest (sorry if this is spam)

2010-10-19 Thread Antony Pegg
Hi all, bear with me, not used to be an official spokesperson type for anything. fortunately I dont think our corporate communications have discovered the OSM lists yet. Anyway: Update! Today MapQuest rolled out three more international OSM sites (oooh h woooh!) open.mapquest.in for India