It's tempting to mark out in OSM all of the Jollibee, McDonald's, and Starbucks branches in the Philippines but I'm wondering if this is wise. Do we mark out every retail store, every bank branch, every Western Union/FedEx/LBC outlet, and every company's office in OSM? My personal take is that we don't need to.<br>
<br>One big problem is multi-storey malls like SM Megamall that have hundreds of tenants. It'll be quite unwieldy to maintain and edit overlapping POIs in such a small land area.<br><br>I feel that the level of detail we should attain is down to the building level. If we know that there's a Jollibee in Megamall Building A, then it's enough for us to map out where Building A is, but not where the Jollibee there is exactly.<br>
<br>In the specific case of malls, exceptions will be added for anchor tenants, like in SM Megamall: the SM Department Store, ACE Hardware, SM Supermarket, SM Cinemas, the Megatrade Halls, etc. No need to mark out each and every McDo, KFC, Jollibee, Bench, Penshoppe, Levi's, BPI, Chinabank, etc. in the mall.<br>
<br>A comprehensive database of all retail addresses is better suited to something like OpenYellowPages, not OpenStreetMap.<br><br>What do you guys think?<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:31 AM, 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;">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>
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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 changes far too often and is far more complex in upkeep.<br>
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> -A<br>
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