[talk-ph] What level of POIs do we add? (was Click the City)

[maning sambale]

Just my take,
1.  If it's on the ground it should be mapped.
2.  If somebody bothered to map fishball vendors in Luneta, nobody's
stopping him.

3 years ago (am I that old in OSM?), my only goal is to map major
highways around the metro, now it's there.  But we want more.  We've
mapped footways, cycleways, I even saw driveways somewhere.  If
somebody sees the importance of a certain feature then by all means
let them map it.

If I can collect data for breeding sites of all the endangered bird
species (and I think it is important) I will possibly map it here.

I agree there should be some limits and priorities (at the moment) but
I am hopeful we will get to a point where we will map individual
houses with addresses

just my take,

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's tempting to mark out in OSM all of the Jollibee, McDonald's, and
> Starbucks branches in the Philippines but I'm wondering if this is wise. Do
> we mark out every retail store, every bank branch, every Western
> Union/FedEx/LBC outlet, and every company's office in OSM? My personal take
> is that we don't need to.
>
> One big problem is multi-storey malls like SM Megamall that have hundreds of
> tenants. It'll be quite unwieldy to maintain and edit overlapping POIs in
> such a small land area.
>
> I feel that the level of detail we should attain is down to the building
> level. If we know that there's a Jollibee in Megamall Building A, then it's
> enough for us to map out where Building A is, but not where the Jollibee
> there is exactly.
>
> In the specific case of malls, exceptions will be added for anchor tenants,
> like in SM Megamall: the SM Department Store, ACE Hardware, SM Supermarket,
> SM Cinemas, the Megatrade Halls, etc. No need to mark out each and every
> McDo, KFC, Jollibee, Bench, Penshoppe, Levi's, BPI, Chinabank, etc. in the
> mall.
>
> A comprehensive database of all retail addresses is better suited to
> something like OpenYellowPages, not OpenStreetMap.
>
> What do you guys think?
>
>
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:31 AM, maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> What I mean is address information (we've discussed it already, and
>> agreed it is important, unless I'm mistaken) not specific business
>> establishment (although it is attached to the address).  We also have
>> numerous POIs added already.
>>
>> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Ahmed Farooq <ahmed at enthropia.com> wrote:
>> > I don’t think adding business data to OSM is a good idea - that data
>> > changes far too often and is far more complex in upkeep.
>> >
>> > -A
>> >
>
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