Re: [OSM-dev] places of business listings

2014-06-19 Thread Simon Poole
Am 18.06.2014 21:57, schrieb Sachin Dole: .. > cool. Now, I just wonder who owns that site and if they have any > licensing requirements for what I would do on their site. Every site targeted at a German audience*, including non-commercial ones, is required to have a so called "Impressum" st

Re: [OSM-dev] places of business listings

2014-06-18 Thread Bryan Housel
I was looking for something similar a while ago for a different project and found nothing free. There are plenty of paid datasets. I do think there should be some kind of open retailer database that lists locations and operating hours of places. It wouldn’t be too difficult to index most majo

Re: [OSM-dev] places of business listings

2014-06-18 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
As for licensing from that Foursquare scraper then possibly a tag with source:Foursquare or URL of venue might be sufficient according to terms? Only saw Yapis last night when someone made an edit through it. https://developer.foursquare.com/overview/attribution Linking to Us: Basic Data

Re: [OSM-dev] places of business listings

2014-06-18 Thread John F. Eldredge
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 busines

Re: [OSM-dev] places of business listings

2014-06-18 Thread Sachin Dole
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 l

Re: [OSM-dev] places of business listings

2014-06-18 Thread Sachin Dole
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,

Re: [OSM-dev] places of business listings

2014-06-18 Thread Serge Wroclawski
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 wrote: > Hello, > > Is there any ongoing project or effort to add places of business to OSM? I > am looking fo

Re: [OSM-dev] places of business listings

2014-06-18 Thread Tom Hughes
On 18/06/14 19:47, Jóhannes Birgir Jensson wrote: YAPIS is something that can assist in it. I don't know the project well but it seems to extract POI from Foursquare and GeoCaching and something else. Examples: POI from Foursquare for Bonn http://yapis.geoclub.de/foursquare.php?lat=50.7358511&l

Re: [OSM-dev] places of business listings

2014-06-18 Thread Jóhannes Birgir Jensson
YAPIS is something that can assist in it. I don't know the project well but it seems to extract POI from Foursquare and GeoCaching and something else. Examples: POI from Foursquare for Bonn http://yapis.geoclub.de/foursquare.php?lat=50.7358511&lon=7.1006599 POI from Foursquare for Kópavogur h

[OSM-dev] places of business listings

2014-06-18 Thread Sachin Dole
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