[OSM-talk] Business listings - a website

[maning sambale]

This is really useful and would love this simple service to be implemented.
I prefer though that the data shouldn't be directly added to the
database especially for well-mapped areas.
Some POIs do not appear in the map (mapnik or osmarender).  A
volunteer mapper can subscribe to a boundingbox
and edit them before upload.  I always prefer a human rather than some
yellowpages.bot.script.

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:05 AM, OJ W<ojwlists at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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