On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:13 PM, John F. Eldredge <j...@jfeldredge.com> wrote: > You also have the fact that a "licensed professional" may work elsewhere than > at an office. For example, a medical doctor may work at an office; the same > doctor may also work at a hospital.
At that point we're really straying beyond making a map, aren't we? I'm already a little dubious about the value of recording the locations of professional services like lawyers. Why not just have a separate project for directories of all kinds, make sure our addressing works, and use geocoding to map between them? I think it makes sense to store amenities like petrol stations and cafes, but the further you stray away from "stuff someone might need in a hurry", the less sense it makes. It would also seem to be easier to mantain a directory than a map - when an office moves, it *should* just be a matter of updating an entry in a directory, rather than moving the GPS coordinates of a node... No? Is there an open directory project? Could we be better integrated with one? Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
