Re: [Tagging] contact:* for review websites

2017-09-16 Thread Dave Swarthout
>do you mean that for example the tripadvisor website is >often more up-to-date for a POI than the POI website itself ? On second look, my reply is off-topic slightly as this is about the contact:* tags and review websites. I would never tag a review site like YELP or Tripadvisor. But in the

Re: [Tagging] contact:* for review websites

2017-09-16 Thread Élisée Reclus
Am 16.09.2017 um 15:25 schrieb marc marc: > and maybe it makes sense only for review system where you can retrieve > the note from an id. systems where you have to go to their own website > are unusable from an osm search (find a hotel close by with a 4 star review) All three services provide

Re: [Tagging] contact:* for review websites

2017-09-16 Thread marc marc
Le 16. 09. 17 à 13:49, Dave Swarthout a écrit : > owners will update the website info as needed do you mean that for example the tripadvisor website is often more up-to-date for a POI than the POI website itself ? AND that tripadvisor website is not enough to have all contact info and it is why

[Tagging] contact:* for review websites

2017-09-16 Thread Élisée Reclus
Tom Pfeifer wrote: > I have seen a few mappers recently adding > contact:[ yelp | tripadvisor | foursquare ] > to businesses. > > IMHO these are not means of contact, instead these are review websites. While > I personally think > that we do not need them in OSM at all, they certainly do not

Re: [Tagging] contact:* for review websites

2017-09-16 Thread Dave Swarthout
marc wrote: "When the poi has its own website website, adding a lot of tag containing the pages that talk about this poi makes no sense and look like seo spam." There are sometimes good reasons to do this, IMO. I like to add the website for hotels and guesthouses because the data consumer then

Re: [Tagging] contact:* for review websites

2017-09-16 Thread marc marc
Le 16. 09. 17 à 00:56, Tom Pfeifer a écrit : > I have seen a few mappers recently adding > contact:[ yelp | tripadvisor | foursquare ] > to businesses. it sometimes happens that a small shop does not have a own website. in this case it is useful to add the page of another commercial website

Re: [Tagging] contact:* for review websites

2017-09-16 Thread Tobias Knerr
On 16.09.2017 00:56, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > IMHO these are not means of contact, instead these are review websites. > While I personally think that we do not need them in OSM at all, they > certainly do not belong in the contact:* namespace. I agree that these aren't contact channels, and it makes

Re: [Tagging] contact:* for review websites

2017-09-15 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On 09/15/2017 05:56 PM, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > I have seen a few mappers recently adding > contact:[ yelp | tripadvisor | foursquare ] > to businesses. > > IMHO these are not means of contact, instead these are review websites. > While I personally think that we do not need them in OSM at all, they

Re: [Tagging] contact:* for review websites

2017-09-15 Thread Max
On 2017년 09월 16일 00:56, Tom Pfeifer wrote: I have seen a few mappers recently adding contact:[ yelp | tripadvisor | foursquare ] to businesses. IMHO these are not means of contact, instead these are review websites. While I personally think that we do not need them in OSM at all, they

Re: [Tagging] contact:* for review websites

2017-09-15 Thread Warin
On 16-Sep-17 08:56 AM, Tom Pfeifer wrote: I have seen a few mappers recently adding contact:[ yelp | tripadvisor | foursquare ] to businesses. IMHO these are not means of contact, instead these are review websites. While I personally think that we do not need them in OSM at all, they

[Tagging] contact:* for review websites

2017-09-15 Thread Tom Pfeifer
I have seen a few mappers recently adding contact:[ yelp | tripadvisor | foursquare ] to businesses. IMHO these are not means of contact, instead these are review websites. While I personally think that we do not need them in OSM at all, they certainly do not belong in the contact:* namespace.