[Aust-NZ] Open Source Mapping shakes competitors

[Jody Garnett]

That is great; love seeing the the "information wants to be free"
ethos in action.

Still it is worth watching how the funding works out as I know we all
benefit from the great work of OSM.

Have a great weekend,
Jody

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Robert Coup
<robert.coup at koordinates.com> wrote:
> Hi Jody,
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I always compare and contrast this with the projects need of servers.
>> I would love to know if Microsoft and AOL are serving the data from
>> their own hardware or not?
>
> MapQuest (AOL) are now hosting un-throttled implementations of the Nominatim
> geocoder, the Directions Service routing engine, and the MapQuest-styled
> tiles. All of which is (hopefully) going to take some load off the OSM
> folks.
> http://devblog.mapquest.com/2010/10/21/nominatim-potlach2-and-tiger-edited-map-on-developer-network/
> http://devblog.mapquest.com/2010/08/24/mapquest-opens-tiles-and-style-enables-rapid-data-updates/
> Can't speak as much for Microsoft, but last time I looked the OSM tiles
> within Bing were coming off a Microsoft CDN rather than the OSM servers.
> Rob :)