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

[Ronny Ager-Wick - Develo Ltd.]

I seriously don't think well get any problems with businesses suing us
for not keeping the information updated. The obvious difference to a
maps printed on dead trees is that they can just create an account and
edit the information themselves if they're not happy with it. Unless
they want to be ridiculed in court, I don't think many would be stupid
enough to go that route...
Yes, I agree that data can get outdated quickly, but personally I prefer
slightly outdated data to no data at all. Besides if it gets so outdated
that it is annoying, someone are bound to be annoyed enough to go and
updated it - that's the beauty of it, isn't it?
Ronny.

Ahmed Farooq wrote:
>
> 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.
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> -A
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> *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
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> 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
> <mailto: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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