<div dir="ltr"><div>Nicely put! I agree that we're should be using a database as a check-list for surveying the existence of things.<br><br></div>Brian<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 November 2016 at 13:38, Harry Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mail@harrywood.co.uk" target="_blank">mail@harrywood.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">"Apart from size, I fail to see the difference"<br>
</span>Well the difference is whether you can go there and see the business.<br>
The effect of this verifiability rule might be a size thing, which might mean that the cottage industry baking cupcakes doesn't get added but...<br>
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More importantly from a process point of view this ultimately makes the difference between copying a database versus using a database as a check-list for surveying the existence of things.<br>
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Worth clarifying which of the two we think we're doing. If we're going to add in things which we can't see when we go there, then we are just copying a database in.<br>
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Harry<br>
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Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] FHRS and businesses run from home<br>
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OSM became a company list as soon as the third business was added. Lists of things is what the database is all about, it's just that the most common way of representing them is geographically spaced out on a map, instead of an Excel spreadsheet.<br>
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Apart from size, I fail to see the difference between a cottage<br>
industry baking cupcakes in the kitchen & Mr Kipling churning<br>
out battenbergs by the mile in huge factories. The FHRS database<br>
listing a business at a domestic address is verification IMO.<br>
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Some see FHRS as a means to an end, by adding address data, which is<br>
fine, but I see it as an end in itself, referencing a well<br>
maintained external database providing information that's too<br>
ephemeral for OSM.<br>
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Dave F.<br>
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On 19/11/2016 16:48, Andrew Hain wrote:<br>
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Some FHRS entries refer to people’s names, or to business names, with the address of a private house. These may be people who cook from home or itinerantly. Is it however appropriate for OSM to map these addresses as anything more than houses, for example by adding fhrs:id or the name in the FHRS data set?<br>
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Andrew<br>
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