[Tagging] Bitcoin and Online shops

Philip Barnes phil at trigpoint.me.uk
Wed Jan 22 19:54:30 UTC 2014


On Wed, 2014-01-22 at 11:22 -0800, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:

> * Online-only businesses, looking to spamvertize, but willing to list
> a physical manifestation of their business geographically.
> 
> The last is the tricky case.  If it's a warehouse that nobody may
> visit, is it acceptable in OSM?  If it's an unverifiable office (no
> sign on the door, no name on the mailbox), is it acceptable in OSM?
> Can you really define the difference between a geographic entity and a
> online-only entity?  Is rack 3 row 8 in a server room really a
> physical place?
> 

I think it is reasonable to map a warehouse/distribution centre, these
are places that customers cannot go. But suppliers, truck drivers and
the like need to find it.

An example here
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.7542&mlon=-1.9231#map=16/52.7542/-1.9231&layers=N

Its the Amazon distribution centre, it is enormous, covered in logos,
and verifiable.

Phil (trigpoint)




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