Hi, On 3/25/26 11:24, Dave F via Talk-GB wrote:
As actions of both yourself & Shaun prevent data consumers from retrieving accurate counts of businesses (such as Tesco)
I believe that is not true; the actions that you criticise would require a more complex analysis of OSM data to retrieve these counts, they would not make these counts impossible.
In general, OSM prioritises - and should prioritise! - ease and clarity of mapping, not ease of use. If one person who wants to count shops is required to write a few more lines of code, then that is preferable over mappers having to go out of their way to satisfy some shop counting script.
As a general remark, just because something is published under an "open something license" it doesn't mean that you can use it in OSM; you have to read the attribution terms to check if OSM can satisfy them.
You write "if it's physical & doesn't move, you can map it" - are these FHRS IDs you are talking about actually on physical signs, or are you not *really* talking about mapping something physical here?
Please try to avoid statements like "You seem confused" or "you appear to be scrabbling" - I could apply them both to your writing because of the inaccuracies pointed out above but would that get us anywhere?
Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
