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open street map?

Yeah, mentioning MapQuest without regards to their OSM efforts seems like a bit of an omission. Intentional or no?

http://open.mapquest.co.uk/

Openstreetmap doesn't provide driving distances or routing itself. Project OSRM uses Openstreetmap data to provide this service: http://project-osrm.org/

There are many projects[1] and services[2] using OSM data for route planning. As your sibling comment mentions, Mapquest Open is among them.

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Routing#Developers

[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Routing/online_routers#Ro...

I don't disagree. mayneack indicated that he/she thought OSM provided an API for driving distances (they don't).

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