[Talk-GB] FHRS and businesses run from home

[David Woolley]

On 23/11/16 09:53, Warin wrote:
> A 'mobile' business .. such as a mobile caterer or a mobile mechanic may
> not be something that needs to present on the OSM map? I'd think someone
> looking for a mobile service would want to contact them by phone .. and
> be best served by using a phone search.

Google certainly ban them from their map, as "service area businesses 
without a storefront" 
<https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/map-maker/0-0wplytssg>, 
for the above reasons.  There are, of course, a lot of such businesses 
actually on Google, and probably even more on Bing, because businesses 
see these as advertising directories not as maps (you can find these on 
OSM as well, typically with a very long description in marketing-speak).

Google do allow them in their business directory services.