[Talk-GB] FHRS and businesses run from home

[Brian Prangle]

Nicely put! I agree that we're should be using a database as a check-list
for surveying the existence of things.

Brian

On 21 November 2016 at 13:38, Harry Wood <mail at harrywood.co.uk> wrote:

> "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
> ________________________________
> From: Dave F <davefoxfac63 at btinternet.com>
> To: talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
> Sent: Monday, 21 November 2016, 12:58
> 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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