<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Bryce Nesbitt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bryce2@obviously.com" target="_blank">bryce2@obviously.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Kicking Bird: <i>How many?</i></div><div class="gmail_extra">John Dunbar: <i>Like the stars.</i></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Let's be really clear here. <i> The value to spammers is the URL link.</i> The spammers with no relevant physical location</div><div class="gmail_extra">won't be interested except for the URL. Thus, I think the URL restrictions are the right lever to pull.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The potential for<i> 'Tesla Model S Mountain'</i>, and the potential for a series of <i>Burma Shave</i> type advertisements is lesser.</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">--</div><div class="gmail_extra">I think the VERIFIABLE rule needs greater emphasis to new mappers, potential spammers, users of iD, etc.</div><div class="gmail_extra">The giant yellow Amazon warehouse clearly should be mapped: it's a verifiably a building, verifiably named by Amazon, and a landmark besides. The office of an internet business, if it has a verifiable sign visible from the public way, is analogous, just far smaller (note 1).</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">But we don't have to offer everyone and everything a live URL link: especially not when future mobile clients will</div><div class="gmail_extra">no doubt start using the URL more heavily. Perhaps classes of URLs in OSM need to be broken down a bit more to avoid making them too attractive to spammers and search engine marketers.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"> -Bryce</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">--</div><div class="gmail_extra">(note 1) The unlabeled warehouse of an internet firm should not be listed. The unlabeled 5 acre warehouse is a trickier case: I'd want to discover and map that owner, but it's hard to draw a firm line as to how that's different from a spammer labeling their own unverifiable warehouse as a marketing ploy.</div>
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