alt Hacker NewsIf I had a dollar for every time I've seen an American on the Internet assume that anything published in the English language must be US-centric...
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It seems pretty weird to use all English words in the domain for a service that offers no English translations and operates in no English speaking countries.
Is expecting something to work in the US the same as expecting it to be US-centric?
Conversely, if I had a penny for every time someone complained about Americans... ;-)
This is an American site to be fair. Mapbox is also an American company.
OpenStreetMaps works in the US and much of the rest of the world.
It's entirely reasonable to expect that a project with an extremely similar name would also work in most of the world, which just happens to include the USA.
I mean I don’t anyone thought this was in the US since the UI is not in English. Maybe it’s more of, this neat, wish we had it here?
You still wouldn't have nearly as many dollars if you subtracted the times those people were correct in that assumption. Personally I assumed the site would be global. It doesn't have any info though, so I rely on finding out somewhere else I guess.