[OSM-talk] Business listings - a website

[OJ W]

Sorry for breaking the thread, but I did a mockup of a website that
people could use to enter their own businesses into OSM:

http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/SmallAds/

so any user of this website can* create up to 5 OSM nodes, label them
as amenity=whatever, and enter a description, a phone number, and a
website.

the idea would be: this is pitched at small business owners who've
never heard of OSM, and only buy advertising on yellow pages because
someone knocked at their door and sold it to them.  It should take
less than 10 minutes to setup, for someone who only once per month
uses the computer their grandson bought them, and should be simple
enough that you can guide someone though it over the phone.

Additionally, it should be easy for self-employed salesmen to go
around their home towns selling this service to every business, taking
some fixed price to enter the shop's details into OSM, print a map for
them, and give them an <img> for their website.  We can't reach
everybody to help in OSM, but if someone sees a business in creating
free data then maybe they can help us.

* I've done an basic webapp mockup, but could someone help with coding
the creation of OSM objects?  It's neanderthal PHP at the moment, but
you can port it to rails or cake or J2EEmanagementEdition if you
prefer.

Ideas welcome

regards,

OJW