[Tagging] Bitcoin and Online shops

[Peter Wendorff]

Am 22.01.2014 23:42, schrieb Frederik Ramm:
> Hi,
> 
> On 01/22/2014 06:27 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>> IMHO this is a geographic reality. If you had to send a letter
>> (physically) you would need exactly this kind of information. A
>> letterbox is also very physical.
> 
> We are not an address directory. We record the physical location of an
> address; not which business is reachable under what postal address.
> 
> If you want to send a letter to a business, then you will either already
> have a business contact and therefore know their address, or you will
> have some other way of finding out the address of the business.
At a real, existing office with working people, it's possible that I
want to go there to apply for a job, to talk to them about an idea, in
special cases to buy something in personal, even if they usually don't
do that by personal contact there.

Another use case is to know what's common in an area. OSM helps me to
see areas with lot's of shops, banks, restaurants and bars - but it's
difficult to see areas with many offices, like a technology park with
lot's of startup offices or something similar.
Here Offices even where they are not a local common point of contact to
that company are helpful, but not yet mapped as often as it could be.

Again: This does not qualify to map a post box where no office is there,
it does not qualify to map a shop where it's only an office operating a
web shop; but IMHO adding an office is worth it for several use cases as
described above.

regards
Peter