[Tagging] Tagging buildings that people work in

[Paul Allen]

On Sun, 26 May 2019 at 10:51, bkil <bkil.hu+Aq at gmail.com> wrote:

> By the way, don't get me wrong, it is a perfectly valid desire to tag
> these. $SUBJECT has occurred to me as well in the past. In such cases, I
> looked for the full address, other text on mailboxes, on the building , on
> the fence and in WLAN and PAN in the air and tried to research these on the
> net. Based on the result, I can usually add a few POI's or companies there
> and even adjust the surrounding landuse. If nothing turns up, it is
> probably not a building of public interest.
>

My approach is that if it's not obvious, I don't tag it.  Because there
could be a reason it's not
obvious.  That reason being they don't want the general public to know they
operate at that
location.

For example, a one-man-and-a-dog company may operate from home.  It's the
correspondence
address, it's listed with the appropriate authority as a company address,
but they don't want
people turning up at their door because it's not the kind of business where
they interact with
customers/clients/whatever.  So address details only (house name/number,
etc.), not company
name.

We need to be wary of the EU's GDPR.  The company name for small businesses
may be
a person's name: "Fred Bloggs, Accountant."  You may now be telling people
where Fred Bloggs
lives if he works from home.  Not a problem if there's a sign outside
saying "Fred Bloggs,
Accountant."   Probably not a problem if he has a web page giving his
address.  More of a problem
if you have to ferret the information out.  A big problem if you get the
information from the WLAN.

Bottom line: if a company makes it clear that they operate at a given
location then we can map it.
If they do not make it clear they operate at that location then we
shouldn't map it.

-- 
Paul
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