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Presentation delivered at State of the Map conference in Girona, Spain on July 9, 2010.
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- 1. OSM from Patch to Mapquest Randy Meech Head of Engineering, AOL Local & Mapping randy@patch.com / @randyme
- 2. Hyperlocal news and information site Full-time journalist in each community High quality data collection process for business listings Currently live in 83 towns in US Scaling to hundreds by the end of this year
- 4. Storied mapping site: the first dynamic web application many people used 49.1 million unique visitors per month Lack of investment in recent years – changing! Recently launched major redesign athttp://new.mapquest.com/ Big announcement today…
- 6. AOL’s best-of city guide, recently dormant September relaunch in 25 US cities Similar to Patch: focus on high-quality business listing data for cities Tools for users to vote on and share favorite restaurants, bars, etc. City’s Best
- 7. Okay AOL, what about OSM? Patch is focused on small communities Local editors concerned about missing parks We read “Take Control of Your Maps” by Paul Smith of EveryBlock Set up our own map stack with Mapnik, a custom style from Stamen Design, TileCache, OpenLayers, and OSM Our editors and engineers contribute back
- 9. Mapquest on OSM! Launching a beta version of Mapquest on OSM UK site first: http://open.mapquest.co.uk/ Other European domains to follow Entirely new stack: Mapnik, TileCache, Nominatim, OSM Paying developers to contribute back to open source projects Web Mercator projection Please use our tiles (beta)
- 10. Why UK, Not US? US navigability needs improvement Mapquest known for accurate directions The UK & Germany ahead in quality We have a large, engaged user base across multiple local properties in the US Fine with the license, we have resources…
- 11. AOL’s Investment in OSM Establishes $1MM internal OpenStreetMap Fund to improve data over next year Will use resources from MapQuest and Patch to engage audiences to contribute Contact the team at open@mapquest.com with questions or comments
- 12. We’re Hiring! We need your help & expertise We want to engage and support the open-source mapping community Full-time roles in London, NYC, Lancaster PA, Denver CO, and the SF Bay Area Contractor positions available elsewhere if you work on an open source project that we use Contact us: open@mapquest.com
- 13. Questions?
Editor's Notes
- Intro – randy meech, head of engineering aol local & mappingAOL local made up of three properties
- I came from patch, which was acquired by AOL a year ago
- A look at the recent redesignSingle-page interface, one-box search
- PATCH MAPSAOL is fully behind OSMHas taken lessons learned on Patch, applied them with expertise to our major mapping property
- Big day today…Developers of this project here at SotM – great talent, know mapping at scale, please talk to them
- 50 million users