Nicely put! I agree that we're should be using a database as a check-list for surveying the existence of things.
Brian On 21 November 2016 at 13:38, Harry Wood <m...@harrywood.co.uk> wrote: > "Apart from size, I fail to see the difference" > Well the difference is whether you can go there and see the business. > The effect of this verifiability rule might be a size thing, which might > mean that the cottage industry baking cupcakes doesn't get added but... > > More importantly from a process point of view this ultimately makes the > difference between copying a database versus using a database as a > check-list for surveying the existence of things. > > Worth clarifying which of the two we think we're doing. If we're going to > add in things which we can't see when we go there, then we are just copying > a database in. > > Harry > ________________________________ > From: Dave F <davefoxfa...@btinternet.com> > To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org > Sent: Monday, 21 November 2016, 12:58 > Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] FHRS and businesses run from home > > > > OSM became a company list as soon as the third business was added. Lists > of things is what the database is all about, it's just that the most common > way of representing them is geographically spaced out on a map, instead of > an Excel spreadsheet. > > Apart from size, I fail to see the difference between a cottage > industry baking cupcakes in the kitchen & Mr Kipling churning > out battenbergs by the mile in huge factories. The FHRS database > listing a business at a domestic address is verification IMO. > > Some see FHRS as a means to an end, by adding address data, which is > fine, but I see it as an end in itself, referencing a well > maintained external database providing information that's too > ephemeral for OSM. > > Dave F. > > > On 19/11/2016 16:48, Andrew Hain wrote: > > Some FHRS entries refer to people’s names, or to business names, with the > address of a private house. These may be people who cook from home or > itinerantly. Is it however appropriate for OSM to map these addresses as > anything more than houses, for example by adding fhrs:id or the name in the > FHRS data set? > > -- > Andrew > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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