<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:18 PM, maning sambale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com">emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Just my take,<br>
1. If it's on the ground it should be mapped.</blockquote><div><br>This is a good guideline in general but of course a line has to be drawn somewhere (pun not intended). I don't think drawing the individual stripes of a pedestrian walkway is productive even if it *is* on the ground. A map is supposed to be a representation--not a facsimile of the real world. That's why we represent roads in OSM using center lines and not (at the moment) as areas.<br>
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2. If somebody bothered to map fishball vendors in Luneta, nobody's<br>
stopping him.</blockquote><div> <br>Fishball vendors are probably not a good example for your point since they are too ephemeral to be mapped. But anyway, OSM is a community project and we work on consensus. While we do encourage people to map what they think are important, I don't think we should just let people map things like "Location of Mark and Jenny's first kiss", right?<br>
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3 years ago (am I that old in OSM?), my only goal is to map major<br>
highways around the metro, now it's there. But we want more. We've<br>
mapped footways, cycleways, I even saw driveways somewhere. If<br>
somebody sees the importance of a certain feature then by all means<br>
let them map it.<br>
<br>
If I can collect data for breeding sites of all the endangered bird<br>
species (and I think it is important) I will possibly map it here.<br>
<br>
I agree there should be some limits and priorities (at the moment) but<br>
I am hopeful we will get to a point where we will map individual<br>
houses with addresses</blockquote><div><br>I disagree that the limits are there just for the moment. I think there should be a limit imposed at all times (the limit can move over time, but there is still a limit). For instance, Wikipedia has guidelines on what is NOT acceptable (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:NOT">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:NOT</a>) eventhough the presence of those guidelines run counter to Wikipedia's lofty aim to be the "sum of all human knowledge".<br>
<br>I think individual features for detached residential houses are OK, but I really don't think we need to place a point for every unit in high-rise condominiums.<br><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div class="h5">On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar <<a href="mailto:seav80@gmail.com">seav80@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> It's tempting to mark out in OSM all of the Jollibee, McDonald's, and<br>
> Starbucks branches in the Philippines but I'm wondering if this is wise. Do<br>
> we mark out every retail store, every bank branch, every Western<br>
> Union/FedEx/LBC outlet, and every company's office in OSM? My personal take<br>
> is that we don't need to.<br>
><br>
> One big problem is multi-storey malls like SM Megamall that have hundreds of<br>
> tenants. It'll be quite unwieldy to maintain and edit overlapping POIs in<br>
> such a small land area.<br>
><br>
> I feel that the level of detail we should attain is down to the building<br>
> level. If we know that there's a Jollibee in Megamall Building A, then it's<br>
> enough for us to map out where Building A is, but not where the Jollibee<br>
> there is exactly.<br>
><br>
> In the specific case of malls, exceptions will be added for anchor tenants,<br>
> like in SM Megamall: the SM Department Store, ACE Hardware, SM Supermarket,<br>
> SM Cinemas, the Megatrade Halls, etc. No need to mark out each and every<br>
> McDo, KFC, Jollibee, Bench, Penshoppe, Levi's, BPI, Chinabank, etc. in the<br>
> mall.<br>
><br>
> A comprehensive database of all retail addresses is better suited to<br>
> something like OpenYellowPages, not OpenStreetMap.<br>
><br>
> What do you guys think?<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:31 AM, maning sambale <<a href="mailto:emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com">emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> What I mean is address information (we've discussed it already, and<br>
>> agreed it is important, unless I'm mistaken) not specific business<br>
>> establishment (although it is attached to the address). We also have<br>
>> numerous POIs added already.<br>
>><br>
>> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Ahmed Farooq <<a href="mailto:ahmed@enthropia.com">ahmed@enthropia.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > I don’t think adding business data to OSM is a good idea - that data<br>
>> > changes far too often and is far more complex in upkeep.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > -A<br>
>> ><br>
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