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In their SOTM announcement, MapQuest launched open.mapquest.co.uk, a general-purpose experimental online map for the whole world and with specific routing for the United Kingdom and parts of Europe. The data on open.mapquest.co.uk was based on the OSM database and the website was constructed with the help of technologies familiar to OpenStreetMap: Mapnik for rendering map tiles, Nominatim for geocoding and search, and Potlatch 2 for editing. Improvements done on these software have been contributed back to the community. For routing, MapQuest uses their own engine. In October 2015 the style for the main page (non-open) was switched to one provided by Mapbox www.mapbox.com/blog/mapquest/, in 2016 this style was also used on open.mapquest.com. In 2016 MapQuest Open has been removed from a list of available layers on main OSM site because direct tile access has been discontinued by MapQuest.
In addition to open.mapquest.co.uk, MapQuest earmarked $1 million in resources to help improve the OSM data in the United States with the stated intention of possibly using OSM data for their maps of the U.S. in the future and to improve the maps on Patch, MapQuest's sister website company in AOL providing hyper-local news, which already uses OpenStreetMap.
MapQuest (stylized as mapquest) is an American free online web mapping service. It was launched in 1996 as the first commercial web mapping service.[1] MapQuest vies for market share with competitors such as Google Maps and Here.[2]
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