On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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?
Very interesting points - I don't have an answer to your questions, but I'd like to know too. However... the way I see it, if it has latitude and longitude, and is a verifiable fact, it is suitable for inclusion in the OSM database. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
