On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 9:27 AM, JB <jb...@mailoo.org> wrote: > Just saying that I'm impressed how much people can write about that > specific private company. Are there some lobbyists hidden somewhere out > there? Will next month be the same with McDonald's or Burger King?
I took on the Starbucks issue after it was used as an example of Nomimatim's listing locations no where near the bbox. Living in Seattle it's hard not be impacted by Starbucks. Other than interacting with their barista's I don't know anyone nor do I have any connection with the corporation. I did try to get them to give me a list of their location to add to OSM. I'm still waiting for them to get back to me. FYI - Seattle has many coffee shops far superior to Starbucks. The issue is partly a tagging problem. People were adding a wikipedia link to the main Starbucks article. That caused Nominatim to include them in a search. When we are done cleaning up Starbucks, we'll still have at least one Starbucks with a wikipedia link, the original store. That should cause Nominatim to display it first. Personally I don't think that is correct. I still believe that Nominatim should give back results based on bbox regardless of wikipedia for certain features. In this case, amenity=cafe. We still owe it to the developers of Nominatim to tag correctly. We shouldn't complain if we don't follow our own rules. McDonald's or Burger King, yes , we should clean those up as well. Clifford -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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