On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Robert Rohde <[email protected]> wrote: > > Another idea that I encountered somewhere (not currently sure where) > was to create a global wiki directory to essentially replace the > yellow pages. Something managed under a wiki model to include the > names, addresses, phone numbers, websites, and a short description of > any and all local businesses. Commercial businesses are a fine > example of entities that are usually verifiable but not notable from > Wikipedia's point of view, and having a central repository of > directory information would generally be useful. A crowd sourced > directory would suffer from the general problems of accuracy that all > our wikiprojects have to worry about, but probably has the potential > to include more comprehensive information than the commercial > providers can manage.
This would be nice to tie in with OpenStreetMap, so that amenity=fast_food ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dfast_food) could be additionally tagged with something like guid=309FAF94-9FC6-11DE-A978-099455D89593, and then http://xx.local.wikimedia.org/wiki/309FAF94-9FC6-11DE-A978-099455D89593would have the directory information (in the xx language). The wiki would probably contain lots of information not included in OSM (OSM are IMHO a little bit overly copyright-paranoid), but in theory one could make a smartphone app which lets you find the nearest fast food restaurants (OSM), take you to a description page for the nearest one (wiki), provide driving directions (OSM)... _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
