On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Elizabeth Dodd <[email protected]> wrote: > > I agree with David, that this shows a view of the world which is > distorted, ignoring Asia where most humans actually reside, and ignoring > Africa at the same time. > A useful thing would be an honest comparison of what is available > through Mapquest through their original sources of data, and what is > available if Mapquest uses OSM.
Liz and David, Mapquest does use the whole world's data in their Open Mapquest sites. They just roll out country-specific sites to provide proper localization. But all of the world's data is available on any of their Open websites. In fact, I can go to any of the Open websites, scroll over to my country, and get driving directions: http://open.mapquest.com/link/8-Ua19 In addition, since they don't have data for my country from other providers, they show OSM data instead in their main (non-Open) website, though only as tiles. Eugene _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
