Brilliant! I second that.. Erm.. +1 that idea! -with a custom CM slippy map that will show the listings. (that companies can use) BUT -The basemap (mapnik, osmarender, cyclemap) shouldnt play favorites, it lists it all at lowest zoom :-) (a middleman who can play nice with yellow pages)
Cheers, Sam ps. Paying for a listing in yellowpages, you should get a choice of what map it gets listed on. :) On 7/27/09, Milo van der Linden <[email protected]> wrote: > My wild guess is that this might be on the core-business-todo list for > cloudmade ;-) > > Paul Houle schreef: >> The other day my family was on a road trip and we passed by an >> unfamilliar city. We wanted to find a chinese restaurant, so I used >> the database of business locations in City Navigator NT to find one. >> >> OSM could replace, perhaps even surpass, the street maps in a >> product like City Navigator, but I'm thinking about the business >> listings. It seems to me that a free product could be provided on a >> basis similar to the Yellow Pages: it seems to me that it's worth it >> for businesses to be listed, so a project like that could pay it's >> bills by offering premium listings. >> >> Is anybody working on anything like that? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
