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

[Ronny Ager-Wick - Develo Ltd.]

Eugene, I think what you suggest sound sensible. Could we use this as a
rule of thumb:
"If it has a door out to street level, then it can be mapped as a POI".
This way, a shop or fast foot outlet in a mall can be mapped only if
they have a separate entrance. All other shops are *inside* the mall.
This way it's also consistent with for example a Jollibee that is
located on the ground floor of an office building, as it will have its
own entrance.
Ronny.

Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Rally de Leon <ralleon at gmail.com
> <mailto:ralleon at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     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.
>
>
> Well, my idea is that if a McDo branch exists as a standalone building
> then there's no problem drawing the building outline and adding
> name=McDonald's, amenity=fastfood to it. But, as you've said, I don't
> think that means that we should also place a point for the McDonald's
> inside Robinsons Galleria.
>
> This implies that one *cannot* query the OSM database and get the
> coordinate locations of *all* the McDonald's branches in Metro Manila
> (you'll only get partial info). To get the full information, one
> should look elsewhere (e.g., go to www.mcdonaldsph.com
> <http://www.mcdonaldsph.com>, or look at ClicktheCity.com, or even
> start an OpenYellowPages) then geocode the obtained addresses using
> street data from OSM to get the actual coordinates. This actually
> helps create mashups applications using OSM as a tool.
>
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