[OSM-talk] Business listings

[Marcus Wolschon]

2009/7/27 Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>:
> El Lunes, 27 de Julio de 2009, John Smith escribió:
>> 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.
>
> You're doing it wrong.
>
> I do think that OSM should tap into government sources. Every country must
> have some kind of business registry that could be cross-referenced with house
> numbers.

a)
Store-Address(es) != Office-Address.
b)
The european database directive grants copy-rights
to such collections of addresses preventing us to copy
it in full or in major parts.
c)
Ther MUST be only one registry.... the one for taxes
and that`s not public.



Marcus