Re: [Talk-us] MapQuest Announcements

2010-09-27 Thread Richard Welty
On 9/26/10 1:15 PM, SteveC wrote: it's a wiki... and i'd like nothing better than to go down there to fix it. except that then i'd be living in west virgina. richard ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] MapQuest Announcements

2010-09-26 Thread antthelimey
Short answer is Yes, the goal is to have an open.mapquest.com Before we do that tho, there are some other things we want to get done, mostly around data editing or visualization tools - so look out for more things on our developer network site first. Hth Ant Aut invenium viam aut faciam __

Re: [Talk-us] MapQuest Announcements

2010-09-26 Thread Peter Batty
To answer the original question, I think it seems pretty clear that MapQuest's aim is to have a US site at some point in the future. They have committed $1m to growing OSM in the States. You can see US data now by going to any of the other MapQuest OSM based sites - for example you can see Denver a

Re: [Talk-us] MapQuest Announcements

2010-09-26 Thread SteveC
it's a wiki... :-) On Sep 25, 2010, at 7:43 PM, Richard Welty wrote: > On 9/25/10 8:55 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: >> jeremy jozwik writes: >> > will there be a US version? http://new.mapquest.com/ still pulls from >> > non-OSM maps >> >> The quality is not there yet. Look, for example, at Wayn

Re: [Talk-us] MapQuest Announcements

2010-09-25 Thread Richard Welty
On 9/25/10 8:55 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: jeremy jozwik writes: > will there be a US version? http://new.mapquest.com/ still pulls from > non-OSM maps The quality is not there yet. Look, for example, at Wayne County, New York. Or Yates County. Or Livingston County. They are unusably bad

Re: [Talk-us] MapQuest Announcements

2010-09-25 Thread Russ Nelson
jeremy jozwik writes: > will there be a US version? http://new.mapquest.com/ still pulls from > non-OSM maps The quality is not there yet. Look, for example, at Wayne County, New York. Or Yates County. Or Livingston County. They are unusably bad (except for the railroads, hehe). -- --my bl

Re: [Talk-us] MapQuest Announcements

2010-09-24 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Coast, Hurricane wrote: > Hi US OSMers, > You can check out the sites at http://open.mapquest.fr >  http://open.mapquest.de  http://open.mapquest.it and >  http://open.mapquest.es > These sites are in addition to http://open.mapquest.co.uk which was launched > earl

[Talk-us] MapQuest Announcements

2010-09-24 Thread Coast, Hurricane
Hi US OSMers, I posted news about MapQuests four new language sites on the talk list, but wanted to share the news here too! The whole planet is available when you visit any of the sites, so pan over to the US and see what’s there! Awesome development include: routes are draggable, you can shar