<div dir="ltr">Hi Eric,<div>About a year ago a lot of businesses started being added to OpenStreetMap, many not actually having a physical presence at the location, and they all had bit coin tags. It turns out people were adding their business to the OSM database just to get them on a bit coin map. That promoted OSM, but the users that added non-physical businesses needed to be kindly explained it wasn't appropriate.<br>You can read more about the discussions on mailing lists here: <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Bitcoin">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Bitcoin</a><br><br>It's worth baring that in mind. However, as you are doing it is good to clarify with the user the intention and type of property. Adding extra tags for clarification would good. Also explaining that most people are unlikely to look at some of those tags, so it's probably better for him to ensure his property is on accommodation listing sites and for OSM to ensure the surrounding map POIS (shops, amenities) are up to date so people can see if it's an area they want to live in.<br><br>Gregory.<br><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 March 2015 at 12:26, Eric Grosso <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eric.grosso.os@gmail.com" target="_blank">eric.grosso.os@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">(sorry for this half message)<div><br></div><div><span class=""><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Hi all,</span><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/alba_place" target="_blank">alba_place</a>, a new OSM contributor (he registered yesterday), added a flat to rent in Edinburgh. Here is his fifth changeset about this POI: <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/29211740" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/29211740</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">What do you think about this kind of addition to the map?</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div></span><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">I already sent him a message to ask him if it was an accommodation for a short period of time which could be considered as the kind of POI described here: <span style="font-size:small"><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tourism%3Dapartment" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tourism%3Dapartment</a></span></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:small"><br></span></div><div>Cheers,</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:small">Eric</span></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 March 2015 at 12:24, Eric Grosso <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eric.grosso.os@gmail.com" target="_blank">eric.grosso.os@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/alba_place" target="_blank">alba_place</a>, a new OSM contributor (he registered yesterday), added a flat to rent in Edinburgh. Here is his fifth changeset about this POI: <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/29211740" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/29211740</a></div><div><br></div><div>What do you think about this kind of addition to the map?</div><div><br></div><div>I already sent him a message to ask him if </div><div><br></div></div>
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