When I expound on why I'm so passionate about contributing towards
OpenStreetMap is this is one of the reasons:
1/ Consider that you've moved into a new area and need to know
* which pharmacy is open the latest
* where the nearest health care centre is
* the quickest route that isn't obstructed
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
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
What I'm saying is, when a new user (using this interface) sees the
map they would assume that the POI/business establishment are not yet
in the map. They would then add the info knowing it's not yet
there.
I like the simplicity of ojw's mockup. We don't need to
overcomplicate it at the moment.
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