[OSM-talk] Business listings

Milo van der Linden milo at opengeo.nl
Mon Jul 27 15:46:50 BST 2009


My wild guess is that this might be on the core-business-todo list for
cloudmade ;-)

Paul Houle schreef:
>      The other day my family was on a road trip and we passed by an 
> unfamilliar city.  We wanted to find a chinese restaurant,  so I used 
> the database of business locations in City Navigator NT to find one.
>
>     OSM could replace,  perhaps even surpass,  the street maps in a 
> product like City Navigator,  but I'm thinking about the business 
> listings.  It seems to me that a free product could be provided on a 
> basis similar to the Yellow Pages:  it seems to me that it's worth it 
> for businesses to be listed,  so a project like that could pay it's 
> bills by offering premium listings.
>
>     Is anybody working on anything like that?
>
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