They did, indeed, pick a region, the USA, where the bulk of the data came from the TIGER database import, just as you say they should have done. So, why are you complaining?
-------Original Email------- Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] open.mapquest.com launched for the US >From :mailto:[email protected] Date :Fri Dec 17 17:12:48 America/Chicago 2010 On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 08:06 -0500, Antony Pegg wrote: > Hi all, > > Very very proud to announce that we have launched the US > http://open.MapQuest.com site Just out of interest, why did you choose to extract only the continental united states out of the entire worlds data that the project has? Surely this leads to more effort at startup and down-the-line, as you need to keep the data up-to-date and have to extract only a very small subset of the data available. Does MapQuest have interest in maps from around the world, or is this more a 'we provide maps for those we can advertise to'? If Mapquest wanted to show off the usefulness of OSM data, wouldnt you be using data from Europe or Asia, or for that matter, any place where a bulk of the data was imported directly from a public db (TIGER). David _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
