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

[maning sambale]

Just a short note (need to work),  this discussion is really
interesting.  I hope we can document/summarize and convert to a useful
mapping convention.  Keep it coming. :)

On 5/7/09, Ronny Ager-Wick - Develo Ltd. <raw at develo.ltd.uk> wrote:
> 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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