Hi, On 03.12.2013 23:50, Jaakko Helleranta.com wrote: > And perhaps we should have better documentation / > stated policy on adjectives / tone of the description tag?
Clearly anything in there must be verifiable on the ground. "20 years of experience" or "satisfaction guaranteed" are hardly ;) > I would only consider it spam if it doesn't actually exist in reality or > perhaps if it is grossly misplaced (to the extent that it is clear that > no one even tried to place it right. I'm wary of such POIs where the location may be correct but of no interest. If they are a mail-order firm or a spiritual movement and place a POI at their registered address for the sole purpose of getting their name and telephone number and Facebook URL and Google+ URL and E-Mail and web site into some kind of dictionary, but if you went to the actual location you'd not be able to conduct any business or even find more than a mailbox, then I'd say they shouldn't have a place in OSM. I agree it's a grey area - there might be a "restaurant" that *only* does delivery and if you go there you can't buy anything. Still, knowing the restaurant is next door might be an interesting information for you if you want food delivered hot. But why should our geo-database have the location of a desk from which someone coordinates food deliveries for people who order something on his web page, a location that is completely irrelevant to the business conducted and just serves as an anchor point for storing addresses and contact information? > Anyways. I think that having more people contribute - including people > whose main (primary) interest is to add only their business is good Reason I was concerned in this case is that I had the impression that what these people saw as "adding their business to Coinmap" was not really the same as what we see as "adding a business to OpenStreetMap", but piggy-backed process wise. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
