[OSM-talk] Long tail challenges - was: Re: Bitcoin Spam

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2013/12/4 Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com>

> There's no way OSM really wants to be a database of every single
> registered (or even unregistered!) business, surely?



Huh? IMHO we DO want to have every single registered / physically existing
business in OSM, and I couldn't see why not? They will have an adress for
instance, they will potentially care to keep the address current, ...

How would you make the distinction of what should be there and what not? An
insurance company yes, but a SEO office not? If we start to bring in
relevance criteria for actually existing stuff than it will also have side
effects (some mappers will go away like they have in certain local
wikipedias, because they feel their contributions aren't wanted).

cheers,
Martin
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