On Sat, 2025-08-23 at 18:44 +0200, Steven Hirschorn wrote: > Thinking a bit more about it - it's a positive thing to have short > term rental properties in OSM, as someone pointed out, someone > configuring a renderer might decide not to display them until a > relatively high zoom level. > > One of the properties is listed on at least half a dozen websites, so > this person probably has a commercial interest in directing users to > their particular listing. As long as they aren't deleting other > website references, and particularly the official website if there is > one, then maybe it's okay? Though if I was mapping them myself, I'd > link Holiday Inn properties to the Holiday Inn (IHG) website rather > than my personal website. Would someone following this link pay a > higher rental price than other websites? 🤔
Objects mapped in OpenStreetMap need to be verifiable, which means they need signs. Using the classic give directions "Turn left at the Red Lion, turn left at the Black Lion and turn right at the White Lion. When you pass these you can confirm your location. Hotels and Bed and Breakfasts are also verifiable. Holiday apartments are (usually) not signed so for anyone wishing to find them the best thing we should be doing is ensuring the address is correct. OpenStreetMap is a map/geographical database, not a business directory. However these edits are made by a SEO company with the intention to route bookings through their systems, not by the owners. A 3rd party booking site should not be in the website tag instead of the actual owners site. Just my 2p worth. Phil (trigpoint) > > On Sat, 23 Aug 2025, 15:13 Philip Barnes, <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Their latest edit is adding an apartment where they tagged the > > entire building looks wrong. > > > > I have commented on this, at the moment with my DWG hidden down the > > side of the settee, asking for sources and in that case > > verifiability. > > > > I have raised a ticket so if anyone wishes to add a comment please > > email to [email protected] with the subject > > [Ticket#2025082310000136] > > > > Phil (trigpoint) > > > > > > On 23 August 2025 12:48:56 BST, David Woolley > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 23/08/2025 09:25, Edward Bainton wrote: > > > > I do wonder what London will look like if every AirBnB gets add > > > > ed to the > > > > map like this. Maybe that’s all good, and renderers can deprior > > > > itise the > > > > resulting rash. But also wonder if the on the ground rule requi > > > > res that > > > > what looks indistinguishable from any old private door, shouldn > > > > ’t get a > > > > special tag. > > > > > > > > > > One might find a lot of listings being short lived, as councils b > > > ecame aware. You are not allowed more than 90 occupied days a ye > > > ar in London, without planning permission, and I think most do no > > > t have permission. The locations on AirBnB's own map are often no > > > t accurate enough to identify the property. > > > > > > I think they should be treated as service area businesses, even t > > > hough they do have some physical presence (the business itself is > > > not contactable by a chance visit). Typically the host does not > > > live there, and there is a key box for the guests. The guests g > > > et told how to get there once the contract has been made. > > > Talk-GB mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-GB mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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