Am 15.05.2010 21:52, schrieb Patrick Aljord:
> I was reading something about that [1] the other day and I was
> wondering whether OSM had something like that. I know OSM already has
> lots of POI on its maps but it only has the most common ones.
While this may be true for the rendered maps, it is definitive not true 
for the osm database - we have a real big bunch of arcane POIs - just 
recall:

amenity=vending_machine
vending=excrement_bags
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Dog_excrement_bags.jpg

 > Would it
> make sense to have a seperate DB that would store all places? Is there
> already a project that does that?
I don't think so, osm is the best solution for this.

Peter

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