On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a feeling the suggestion that Anthony was referring to was one > I made. It came up in the context of mapping architects, lawyers and > other professional bodies. There comes a point where they're not > really POIs or "amenities" any more, but simply a business directory. > Which I think would be handled much better by having an actual > directory, and georeferencing back to OSM in order to render a map, or > load data onto a GPS or whatever. > > I'm not advocating using the directory instead of amenity=cafe or > amenity=fuel or whatever. But in the long term, the ideal solution > would probably be to allow that directory type information to be > maintained separately, in a more convenient form than a 2D map. > Particularly since while addresses are relatively fixed, their > contents changes. > Well said. In hindsight, I guess my comment is off-topic for the tagging mailing list, unless and until that directory is actually created. Sorry.
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