Sorry for breaking the thread, but I did a mockup of a website that people could use to enter their own businesses into OSM:
http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/SmallAds/ so any user of this website can* create up to 5 OSM nodes, label them as amenity=whatever, and enter a description, a phone number, and a website. the idea would be: this is pitched at small business owners who've never heard of OSM, and only buy advertising on yellow pages because someone knocked at their door and sold it to them. It should take less than 10 minutes to setup, for someone who only once per month uses the computer their grandson bought them, and should be simple enough that you can guide someone though it over the phone. Additionally, it should be easy for self-employed salesmen to go around their home towns selling this service to every business, taking some fixed price to enter the shop's details into OSM, print a map for them, and give them an <img> for their website. We can't reach everybody to help in OSM, but if someone sees a business in creating free data then maybe they can help us. * I've done an basic webapp mockup, but could someone help with coding the creation of OSM objects? It's neanderthal PHP at the moment, but you can port it to rails or cake or J2EEmanagementEdition if you prefer. Ideas welcome regards, OJW _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
