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Re:We’re 10 today by erjiang on Saturday August 09, 2014 @12:32PM (#8157237)
A fun side-by-side comparison of OpenStreetMap in 2007 vs today:

https://mvexel.github.io/thenandnow/#10/52.2644/5.2899

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Re:We’re 10 today by yutah on Saturday August 09, 2014 @02:56PM (#8157693)
Besides a few city names, USA was completely missing in 2007?
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Re:We’re 10 today by maxerickson on Saturday August 09, 2014 @03:45PM (#8157842)
Much of the progress came from importing the TIGER roads data.

I don't know it first hand, but the story is that other maps of the US were in pretty good shape and data was relatively available (either the TIGER data, or from states and counties), so interest wasn't very high.

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Re:We’re 10 today by rmc on Sunday August 10, 2014 @06:59AM (#8159418)
OSM started in the UK.
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