[OSM-talk] Business listings

[Sam Vekemans]

But CloudMade and OSM are 2 different things.

Yellow pages can use cloudmades slippymap instead of others.
They could partner-up, but give us 2 more years to get OSM-basemap
upto snuff :-)

On 7/27/09, John Smith <delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> --- On Mon, 27/7/09, Paul Houle <paul at ontology2.com> wrote:
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>>     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.
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> Don't ya just love a good chicken and egg problem. Yellow pages works
> because it has both critical mass and usually a physical product is sent
> out.
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> At this point in time OSM needs businesses to embrace it more than it can
> offer back to businesses, so charging them would be like a slap in the face.
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