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<tt>Eugene, I think what you suggest sound sensible. Could we use this
as a rule of thumb:<br>
"If it has a door out to street level, then it can be mapped as a POI".<br>
This way, a shop or fast foot outlet in a mall can be mapped only if
they have a separate entrance. All other shops are *inside* the mall.
This way it's also consistent with for example a Jollibee that is
located on the ground floor of an office building, as it will have its
own entrance.<br>
Ronny.</tt><br>
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Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Rally de
Leon <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:ralleon@gmail.com">ralleon@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">If
you have access to (data of) all locations of Jollibee, McDonalds,
7-Eleven, Ministops, Mercury Drugs and all these big companies, by all
means mark them. With the exceptions of those already inside big malls
(which will just clutter the map); we only need the mall-building
itself as a landmark (POI) together with position of entrance gates and
parking lots. <br>
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Well, my idea is that if a McDo branch exists as a standalone building
then there's no problem drawing the building outline and adding
name=McDonald's, amenity=fastfood to it. But, as you've said, I don't
think that means that we should also place a point for the McDonald's
inside Robinsons Galleria.<br>
<br>
This implies that one *cannot* query the OSM database and get the
coordinate locations of *all* the McDonald's branches in Metro Manila
(you'll only get partial info). To get the full information, one should
look elsewhere (e.g., go to <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.mcdonaldsph.com">www.mcdonaldsph.com</a>, or look at
ClicktheCity.com, or even start an OpenYellowPages) then geocode the
obtained addresses using street data from OSM to get the actual
coordinates. This actually helps create mashups applications using OSM
as a tool.<br>
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