[OSM-talk] Business listings - a website

[Joseph Reeves]

>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).

But then you're just mapping for the renderers - omitting data because
two of current representations of the database as provided by osm.org
don't show everything the database includes. What about if someone was
to produce a new renderer from current OSM data?

Of course, renderers are only the start - if the OSM database
contained enough information about local businesses somebody could
start a project involving OSM, Asterisk and some text <-> speech
software that would allow you to phone a number and get a list of the
nearest bicycle shops to your current location that were open at the
time. Or the nearest car repair shop that was approved by your
insurance company, or...

We shouldn't limit ourselves by what could be drawn on a map,
especially if we limit that even further by what is currently drawn on
two examples.

Cheers, Joseph



2009/7/30 maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>:
> 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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