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

[Rally de Leon]

If you have access to (data of) all locations of Jollibee, McDonalds,
7-Eleven, Ministops, Mercury Drugs and all these big companies, by all means
mark them. With the exceptions of those already inside big malls (which will
just clutter the map); we only need the mall-building itself as a landmark
(POI) together with position of entrance gates and parking lots.

It's not that we are adveritising their brands (resto and convenience
stores) for free, but I think putting these "free-standing buildings"
bigger-brand establishments serve as very good "landmarks" on the map for
many years to come. Map users will have an easier time determing their
location (whether they be looking at it on paper, tiny mobile device, or pc
screen) without the use of gps, if they can see the establisment's big
signboards from where they are standing. Doesn't have to look for street
signs. It's easy to corelate. The good thing about these establishments is
that they don't close their business as often as those poorly-managed bars
and restaurants like in some areas. And we don't need to update them that
often either. The same reason why I also collect those Iglesia Ni Cristo
church locations (beside the Catholic churches and other churches), is
because their pointed-buildings structure are easy to spot from a distance
(not that I advertise their religion).

One good purpose of our POI's are for landmarks, so that we need to ensure
that the ones we mark are only those that will most likely last for many
years. Unless there's some exceptionally interesting POI's that need to be
shared (for the current generations) eg. good fishball or isaw stand or
fried itik, bulalohan and some other good eats. :-)

Do include Locksmiths and good Vulcanizing shops in your POI collections,
coz you'll never know when you or your friend will lock the key inside the
car, or have a flat tire without a good spare.

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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