[talk-ph] talk-ph Digest, Vol 10, Issue 8

[Ahmed Farooq]

Oh I'm not one bit concerned about advertising etc - having worked in the
local business space for 5+ years, I know how hard it is keeping the data
upto date, and decaying data is bad.

 

Wikipedia has entries for famous fast food joints - because of the interest
in their story and so forth. Think of a map you would buy if you are a
tourist to the city - it would have landmarks (possibly commercial ones
too), but it would not have any ol' common listing - it clutters up the map,
and can cause headaches down the road (businesses threatening to sue because
the name is wrong, threatening to sue because they didn't want to be listed,
complaining about competitors, etc etc).

 

Going from mapping to business listings can open up a whole can of forms -
and if the community decides to do it anyway, I can understand that, but I
am simply trying to voice concerns that will be run into.

 

-A

 

 

From: Eugene Alvin Villar [mailto:seav80 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 8:59 PM
To: Ahmed Farooq
Cc: noel mondragon; talk-ph at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [talk-ph] talk-ph Digest, Vol 10, Issue 8

 

Ahmed, there's nothing wrong with adding commercial POIs in a
general-purpose map even if its significance is not on a national-level.

If you think that this will impact on possible advertising revenues from OSM
end-users, I don't think that the effect is significant.

The valid point that you've raised is that it'll be harder to maintain this
data since businesses come and go, but I think some such data is useful and
we just need to strike a balance between comprehensiveness and
maintainability.



On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Ahmed Farooq <ahmed at enthropia.com> wrote:

Im personally against all commercial POIs, unless they are a country-wide
landmark (eg a baseball stadium).




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