[Talk-GB] FHRS and businesses run from home

[Harry Wood]

"Apart from size, I fail to see the difference"
Well the difference is whether you can go there and see the business.
The effect of this verifiability rule might be a size thing, which might mean that the cottage industry baking cupcakes doesn't get added but...

More importantly from a process point of view this ultimately makes the difference between copying a database versus using a database as a check-list for surveying the existence of things.

Worth clarifying which of the two we think we're doing. If we're going to add in things which we can't see when we go there, then we are just copying a database in.

Harry
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From: Dave F <davefoxfac63 at btinternet.com>
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Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] FHRS and businesses run from home



OSM became a company list as soon as the third business was added. Lists of things is what the database is all about, it's just that the most common way of representing them is geographically spaced out on a map, instead of an Excel spreadsheet.

Apart from size, I fail to see the difference between a cottage
   industry baking cupcakes in the kitchen & Mr Kipling churning
   out battenbergs by the mile in huge factories. The FHRS database
   listing a business at a domestic address is verification IMO.

Some see FHRS as a means to an end, by adding address data, which is
   fine, but I see it as an end in itself, referencing a well
   maintained external database providing information that's too
   ephemeral for OSM.

Dave F.


On 19/11/2016 16:48, Andrew Hain wrote:

Some FHRS entries refer to people’s names, or to business names, with the address of a private house. These may be people who cook from home or itinerantly. Is it however appropriate for OSM to map these addresses as anything more than houses, for example by adding fhrs:id or the name in the FHRS data set?

--
Andrew



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