[OSM-talk] Business Building Conventions

[andrzej zaborowski]

Hi,

2009/8/20 Andrew Ayre <andy at britishideas.com>:
> Thanks. It's not tagging for the renderer, it's using the renderer to
> give me a hint that I might be doing things wrong.
>
> However, if business names don't appear on the online maps which most
> people will use, I'm not sure how good an investment of my time it is to
>  go around photographing buildings and adding the names.

In other words it's tagging for the renderer ;)

> I want what I
> do to benefit the most people.

This is understandable, but right now people rarely benefit from OSM
data at all other than making statistics.  When it becomes more
complete and more popular everyone will have forgotten the current
mapnik style and there will be renders and other uses we're not
imagining now.

I guess when I map stuff there's a virtual user somewhere in my head
that tries to make use of my data and right now his main use case is
searching for stuff with all possible keywords (imagine what kind of
queries people type into google) and he wants to know the coordinates
and/or conact info.  He's also a programmer and sometimes he wants to
run some statistics or build a self navigating robot.

Cheers