On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 2:17 PM, [email protected] < > [email protected]> wrote: >> >> You have this directory already! >> Just extract all the deleted articles that are not notible. >> you will have all the small business that got deleted. >> >> In fact that is the biggest pain that people face, they get deleted. >> We need some way to keep pages from being deleted, but moved. >> > > I think first there needs to be a place to move them to. OSM has come a > long way since I first proposed Wikiteer, which was meant to be a > combination of items of local interest which were deleted as non-notable > plus the GIS support structure to map them. Nowadays I'm comfortable > letting OSM manage the GIS/mapping aspect and sticking to just the > description pages (phone numbers, addresses, websites, operating hours, > maybe even some topic specific info like menus or admission prices or show > schedules).
OSM supports address and websites. It could store all the data in fact, it is free form. you could have key=price-food-hambuger val=1$ if you want. Basically you can store all the data that google local does in osm. But people want to have a wikipage for themselves. Small business etc. mike _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
