[Tagging] Bitcoin and Online shops

[Bryce Nesbitt]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2 at obviously.com>wrote:

>
> Kicking Bird: *How many?*
> John Dunbar: *Like the stars.*
>

Let's be really clear here. * The value to spammers is the URL link.*   The
spammers with no relevant physical location
won't be interested except for the URL.  Thus, I think the URL restrictions
are the right lever to pull.

The potential for* 'Tesla Model S Mountain'*, and the potential for a
series of *Burma Shave* type advertisements is lesser.

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I think the VERIFIABLE rule needs greater emphasis to new mappers,
potential spammers, users of iD, etc.
The giant yellow Amazon warehouse clearly should be mapped: it's
a verifiably a building, verifiably named by Amazon, and a landmark
besides. The office of an internet business, if it has a verifiable sign
visible from the public way, is analogous, just far smaller (note 1).

But we don't have to offer everyone and everything a live URL link:
especially not when future mobile clients will
no doubt start using the URL more heavily.  Perhaps classes of URLs in OSM
need to be broken down a bit more to avoid making them too attractive to
spammers and search engine marketers.

             -Bryce

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(note 1) The unlabeled warehouse of an internet firm should not be listed.
 The unlabeled 5 acre warehouse is a trickier case: I'd want to discover
and map that owner, but it's hard to draw a firm line as to how that's
different from a spammer labeling their own unverifiable warehouse as a
marketing ploy.
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