[OSM-talk] Business listings

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

El Lunes, 27 de Julio de 2009, Lars Aronsson escribió:
> Did you try to get hold of such a list?  Was it useful?
>
> I'm an independent computer consultant. In the tax registry, I'm
> an "educational venture".  Maybe your map would show my home
> address as a school building?  I guess most restaurants are just
> "restaurants" in the business registry, so you wouldn't know which
> serve pizza or Chinese, or which are open for lunch or closed on
> Mondays.  Most businesses would register the postal address where
> they receive mail from tax authorities, not the shop front door.

Any data is better than no data at all. I don't think that incompleteness is a 
reason to deny entering some data into OSM.

And, for the record, I imported 3000 educational ventures in Madrid, Spain, a 
while ago. I don't mind if they're a kindergarten or a university. I just 
want more data.

Cheers,
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Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>

Dichosos los pueblos cuyos anales son aburridos.- Barón de Montesquieu.
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