On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:18 PM, maning sambale <emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Just my take, > 1. If it's on the ground it should be mapped. This is a good guideline in general but of course a line has to be drawn somewhere (pun not intended). I don't think drawing the individual stripes of a pedestrian walkway is productive even if it *is* on the ground. A map is supposed to be a representation--not a facsimile of the real world. That's why we represent roads in OSM using center lines and not (at the moment) as areas. > 2. If somebody bothered to map fishball vendors in Luneta, nobody's > stopping him. Fishball vendors are probably not a good example for your point since they are too ephemeral to be mapped. But anyway, OSM is a community project and we work on consensus. While we do encourage people to map what they think are important, I don't think we should just let people map things like "Location of Mark and Jenny's first kiss", right? 3 years ago (am I that old in OSM?), my only goal is to map major > highways around the metro, now it's there. But we want more. We've > mapped footways, cycleways, I even saw driveways somewhere. If > somebody sees the importance of a certain feature then by all means > let them map it. > > If I can collect data for breeding sites of all the endangered bird > species (and I think it is important) I will possibly map it here. > > I agree there should be some limits and priorities (at the moment) but > I am hopeful we will get to a point where we will map individual > houses with addresses I disagree that the limits are there just for the moment. I think there should be a limit imposed at all times (the limit can move over time, but there is still a limit). For instance, Wikipedia has guidelines on what is NOT acceptable (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:NOT) eventhough the presence of those guidelines run counter to Wikipedia's lofty aim to be the "sum of all human knowledge". I think individual features for detached residential houses are OK, but I really don't think we need to place a point for every unit in high-rise condominiums. On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > It's tempting to mark out in OSM all of the Jollibee, McDonald's, and > > Starbucks branches in the Philippines but I'm wondering if this is wise. > Do > > we mark out every retail store, every bank branch, every Western > > Union/FedEx/LBC outlet, and every company's office in OSM? My personal > take > > is that we don't need to. > > > > One big problem is multi-storey malls like SM Megamall that have hundreds > of > > tenants. It'll be quite unwieldy to maintain and edit overlapping POIs in > > such a small land area. > > > > I feel that the level of detail we should attain is down to the building > > level. If we know that there's a Jollibee in Megamall Building A, then > it's > > enough for us to map out where Building A is, but not where the Jollibee > > there is exactly. > > > > In the specific case of malls, exceptions will be added for anchor > tenants, > > like in SM Megamall: the SM Department Store, ACE Hardware, SM > Supermarket, > > SM Cinemas, the Megatrade Halls, etc. No need to mark out each and every > > McDo, KFC, Jollibee, Bench, Penshoppe, Levi's, BPI, Chinabank, etc. in > the > > mall. > > > > A comprehensive database of all retail addresses is better suited to > > something like OpenYellowPages, not OpenStreetMap. > > > > What do you guys think? > > > > > > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:31 AM, maning sambale < > emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> What I mean is address information (we've discussed it already, and > >> agreed it is important, unless I'm mistaken) not specific business > >> establishment (although it is attached to the address). We also have > >> numerous POIs added already. > >> > >> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Ahmed Farooq <ah...@enthropia.com> > wrote: > >> > I don’t think adding business data to OSM is a good idea - that data > >> > changes far too often and is far more complex in upkeep. > >> > > >> > -A > >> > > > > > -- > > http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com > > > > > > -- > cheers, > maning > ------------------------------------------------------ > "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden > wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ > blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > talk-ph mailing list > talk-ph@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph > -- http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com
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