[OSM-talk] Public notary (Map feature POI proposal)

[Roy Wallace]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> At that point we're really straying beyond making a map, aren't we?
> I'm already a little dubious about the value of recording the
> locations of professional services like lawyers. Why not just have a
> separate project for directories of all kinds, make sure our
> addressing works, and use geocoding to map between them? I think it
> makes sense to store amenities like petrol stations and cafes, but the
> further you stray away from "stuff someone might need in a hurry", the
> less sense it makes. It would also seem to be easier to mantain a
> directory than a map - when an office moves, it *should* just be a
> matter of updating an entry in a directory, rather than moving the GPS
> coordinates of a node...
>
> No?
>
> Is there an open directory project? Could we be better integrated with one?

Very interesting points - I don't have an answer to your questions,
but I'd like to know too.

However... the way I see it, if it has latitude and longitude, and is
a verifiable fact, it is suitable for inclusion in the OSM database.