Re: [OSM-talk] Adding the full name of a business

2010-10-03 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/3 Niklas Cholmkvist : > What would you do? > http://www.flickr.com/photos/54087...@n04/5046842757/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/54087...@n04/5046842765/ I would tag them, but I don't know, if this is legal in your country, so my advice is to check this up for your local law. Cheers, M

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding the full name of a business

2010-10-03 Thread Niklas Cholmkvist
Hi, I got 2 more images that I took today. Do you think that I can add full names for professions like doctors, dentists, lawyers from these signs. Please look at them first and then tell me your view. What would you do? http://www.flickr.com/photos/54087...@n04/5046842757/ http://www.flickr.com/p

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding the full name of a business

2010-09-30 Thread Niklas Cholmkvist
Hi, Richard Weait wrote: > I've put up some examples. It would be great to see more examples, > and exceptions, from other places. > > http://weait.com/content/whats-name Your photos were interesting to view and I also found your notes in relation to the photos to be helpful. Myself today I too

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding the full name of a business

2010-09-29 Thread Toby Murray
The day someone tells me that I have to collect signatures from every business I map is the day I stop contributing to OSM. With all respect to local laws... that is just plain ridiculous, lawyers be damned. Where would this archive of signatures even exist? Does OSMF have a secret bunker under a m

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding the full name of a business

2010-09-29 Thread Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:36:57 + (UTC) Ed Avis wrote: > Different people have different expectations for what data can be > added. Some even add tags for phone numbers. For large public-facing > businesses such as hotels it obviously makes sense to put the full > name on the map. For people's

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding the full name of a business

2010-09-29 Thread Niklas Cholmkvist
Hi, On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 11:21 +0200, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > this is legally not correct, while it might be assumable for most > cases that it will go well. People have to agree to be listed in phone > directories, but that doesn't imply that they also want to be listed > on other services

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding the full name of a business

2010-09-29 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Niklas Cholmkvist wrote: > Hi list, > > On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 15:22 -0400, Richard Weait wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Niklas Cholmkvist >> wrote: >> > >> > How do you handle this issue when adding doctors or businesses that have >> > their full name

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding the full name of a business

2010-09-29 Thread Pieren
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Peter Körner wrote: > If there is a plate with name and phone number then this information is > definitely public available without any restrictions. > > That's not true. What you can freely see from the street is not necesseraly something you can collect and publ

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding the full name of a business

2010-09-29 Thread Ed Avis
M∡rtin Koppenhoefer gmail.com> writes: >>I guess if it is listed in the phone directory's >>business section under a particular name, then that name can go in OSM. > >this is legally not correct, You may be right; I wasn't thinking of legal reasons (which vary from country to country) but of so

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding the full name of a business

2010-09-29 Thread Peter Körner
Am 29.09.2010 11:21, schrieb M∡rtin Koppenhoefer: 2010/9/29 Ed Avis: is somewhere between the two. I guess if it is listed in the phone directory's business section under a particular name, then that name can go in OSM. this is legally not correct, while it might be assumable for most cases

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding the full name of a business

2010-09-29 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/9/29 Ed Avis : > is somewhere between the two.  I guess if it is listed in the phone > directory's > business section under a particular name, then that name can go in OSM. this is legally not correct, while it might be assumable for most cases that it will go well. People have to agree to

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding the full name of a business

2010-09-29 Thread Ed Avis
Different people have different expectations for what data can be added. Some even add tags for phone numbers. For large public-facing businesses such as hotels it obviously makes sense to put the full name on the map. For people's houses it would be crazy to list the occupants (though some OSM c

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding the full name of a business

2010-09-28 Thread Tim McNamara
On 29 September 2010 07:31, Niklas Cholmkvist wrote: > I'm afraid that privacy laws will be breached if I put in the name tag > like this: name="John Johnson - Dentist" or name="Jeff Jefferson - > Otolaryngologist". I once did that, and my friend was so alarmed when > she saw my contributions tha

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding the full name of a business

2010-09-28 Thread Julio Costa Zambelli
I am not sure if I am right with this (I erased the first messages of this thread), but I guess we may be talking about something like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cleong/1271860724/ Cheers On 28 September 2010 16:41, Niklas Cholmkvist wrote: > Hi list, > > On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 15:22 -04

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding the full name of a business

2010-09-28 Thread Niklas Cholmkvist
Hi list, On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 15:22 -0400, Richard Weait wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Niklas Cholmkvist > wrote: > > > > How do you handle this issue when adding doctors or businesses that have > > their full name (first and last name) included? > > I use the large overhead sign as

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding the full name of a business

2010-09-28 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Niklas Cholmkvist wrote: > Hi, [ ... ] > I'm afraid that privacy laws will be breached if I put in the name tag > like this: name="John Johnson - Dentist" or name="Jeff Jefferson - > Otolaryngologist". I once did that, and my friend was so alarmed when > she saw

[OSM-talk] Adding the full name of a business

2010-09-28 Thread Niklas Cholmkvist
Hi, I was walking through the city of Thessaloniki today and was looking out for businesses that don't have a "cover" name like McDonald's or Starbucks but for small businesses like an office of a translator where outside of it(the office) you can see the full name of a person. I also went close