A,
If you have any idea who/what/where these SMBs are (the "stupid" one) by
all means you can remove them but eventually someone will put them back
in the map. This is the beauty of a wiki map.
murlwe
<-----Original Message----->
>From: Ahmed Farooq [ah...@enthropia.com]
>Sent: 5/11/2009 5:12:47 AM
>To: r...@develo.ltd.uk;talk-ph@openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [talk-ph] talk-ph Digest, Vol 10, Issue 8
>
>You vastly underestimate the stupidity of some SMB operators.
>
>Trust me, it has been my day job for the last five years :-)
>
>-A
>
>
>From: talk-ph-boun...@openstreetmap.org
>[mailto:talk-ph-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Ronny Ager-Wick
- Develo
>Ltd.
>Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 4:59 PM
>To: talk-ph@openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [talk-ph] talk-ph Digest, Vol 10, Issue 8
>
>I seriously don't think well get any problems with businesses suing us
for not
>keeping the information updated. The obvious difference to a maps
printed on
>dead trees is that they can just create an account and edit the
information
>themselves if they're not happy with it. Unless they want to be
ridiculed in
>court, I don't think many would be stupid enough to go that route...
>Yes, I agree that data can get outdated quickly, but personally I
prefer
>slightly outdated data to no data at all. Besides if it gets so
outdated that it
>is annoying, someone are bound to be annoyed enough to go and updated
it -
>that's the beauty of it, isn't it?
>Ronny.
>
>Ahmed Farooq wrote:
>Oh I'm not one bit concerned about advertising etc - having worked in
the local
>business space for 5+ years, I know how hard it is keeping the data
upto date,
>and decaying data is bad.
>
>Wikipedia has entries for famous fast food joints - because of the
interest in
>their story and so forth. Think of a map you would buy if you are a
tourist to
>the city - it would have landmarks (possibly commercial ones too), but
it would
>not have any ol' common listing - it clutters up the map, and can cause
>headaches down the road (businesses threatening to sue because the name
is
>wrong, threatening to sue because they didn't want to be listed,
complaining
>about competitors, etc etc).
>
>Going from mapping to business listings can open up a whole can of
forms - and
>if the community decides to do it anyway, I can understand that, but I
am simply
>trying to voice concerns that will be run into.
>
>-A
>
>
>From: Eugene Alvin Villar [mailto:sea...@gmail.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 8:59 PM
>To: Ahmed Farooq
>Cc: noel mondragon; talk-ph@openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [talk-ph] talk-ph Digest, Vol 10, Issue 8
>
>Ahmed, there's nothing wrong with adding commercial POIs in a
general-purpose
>map even if its significance is not on a national-level.
>
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