[OSM-talk] Business listings

[Arlindo Pereira]

I strongly disagree with you on this point. If I could use Google Maps to
find plumbers, dentists and web designers, why shouldn't I be able to do it
with OpenStreetMap? Perhaps not on Garmin, but on OSM.org or
OpenStreetBrowser or whatever application that uses OSM data. Maybe it's
just a matter of making Garmin ignore it.

The Osmarender/Mapnik renderings could get cluttered, but I think that this
is not a problem of the database itself; maybe we should add even closer
zoom levels on crowded places.

2009/7/27 Paul Houle <paul at ontology2.com>

> Phil Endecott wrote:
> >
> > I'm not sure how far you can extrapolate from that, but I think it's
> > still fair to say that Yellow Pages covers most businesses.  Certainly
> > the copies that arrive on my doorstep each year (and go straight into
> > the recycling bin) are not getting any thinner.
> >
> >
>     Personally,  I'm not concerned with a database that contains ~all~
> businesses,  rather just the kind of businesses that a person would be
> interested in if they're travelling.
>
>    I won't use my Garmin to find a plumber,  a dentist or a web
> designer.  I would use it to find a restaurant,  gas station or hotel.
>
>    Producing and maintaining a list of businesses (identity management)
> is a different problem from determining how good a business is,  and
> what experiences people have had with it.  I know that geonames contains
> a database of hotels.
>
>    Personally I'm most interested in the restaurants.  Travelling in
> the rural US,  I tire pretty quick of pizza,  subs and chinese food.
> The ideal system finds me something that isn't one of those,  but if it
> can't do that,  at least helps me get a good sub instead of a bad sub.
>
>
>
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