Other than coupons (which would do better in a separate database, not as part
of OSM, since they are likely to change often), OSM already has tags for all of
these pieces of data. Some mappers are capturing this information, but I am not
aware of a project aimed specifically at capturing business data as opposed to
non-business data.
On June 18, 2014 3:10:47 PM CDT, Sachin Dole <[email protected]> wrote:
>Actually, the intent of my original question was a little different. I
>like
>the OSM data as it is and with tools such as the ones suggested here,
>its
>fairly easy to add new data over periods of time, however, I was
>curious,
>whether there is any open source project or movement to do something
>like
>localeze (http://www.neustarlocaleze.biz/directory/index.aspx) or
>dnb.com
>or yext.com or publisher.yp.com.
>
>For example, for a fee and restricted license, yp.com can give me phone
>numbers, websites, hours of operation, coupons for a local business.
>How do
>we make that available on OSM under odbl?
>
>--
>Thanks
>Sachin
>
>
>On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Sachin Dole <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thank you! OnOsm.org looks promising. I have the same legality
>question
>> about how Joi has suggested his links. However, I was able to click
>around
>> on that website and was able to create a single poi in osm based on
>my
>> personal knowledge. Followed below is the changeset info that Joi's
>url
>> gave me, further, here is the url of the POI that I just added :
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2922366101. I think this is pretty
>> cool. Now, I just wonder who owns that site and if they have any
>licensing
>> requirements for what I would do on their site.
>>
>>
>>
>> Changeset opened: 23012165
>> POI created: 2922366101
>> Changeset closed
>>
>>
>> Thanks ahain!
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> onosm.org run by Ian Dees is a good one.
>>>
>>> It creates notes, which isn't perfect, but it's the best thing we
>have
>>> at the moment IMHO.
>>>
>>> - Serge
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Sachin Dole <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>>> > Hello,
>>> >
>>> > Is there any ongoing project or effort to add places of business
>to
>>> OSM? I
>>> > am looking for free/open source data such as the type provided by
>dnb or
>>> > yellow pages api. I wont be surprised if there is none, but was
>>> wondering if
>>> > there is any work on this.
>>> >
>>> > Thank you!
>>> > Sachin Dole
>>> > www.trelair.com - this is still a work in progress startup
>>> >
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