Hi Pavol, probably to part of prevent this issue you could allow your users to add their non-brick-and-mortar businesses to a separate database you manage. You could list them in the search, but not show them on the map. Probably it's possible to work out a solution where these businesses could define their operation area (e.g. by defining the city, country or setting it to global).
I guess e-businesses have a legitime interest in being found on a "bitcoin accepting businesses directory", but not necessarily on being shown on a bitcoin map. Nevertheless these are near to each other, so perhaps you could think about that as well. regards Peter Am 04.12.2013 11:44, schrieb Pavol Rusnak: > Hello! > > The guy behind CoinMap here. I was invited by mgehling to join the > discussion, thanks! > > Like it was said, it's correct that I don't want entities on map, that > don't have brick-and-mortar presence. Sadly lots of people think of > CoinMap/OSM as a cheap way how to advertise their e-shop/online presence. > > I was and still I am removing such entries, but the interest in the > service has gone exponential and it's simply too much effort for just > me. Fortunately more people have stepped up and are doing the same thing > now. > > What would probably be a good thing is to come up with a separate > subpage of CoinMap that will explain more precisely how to add a new > POI, that one has to fill in required geo-data as well and that not B&M > stuff is not wanted on CoinMap/OSM. Also probably replace the video with > sets of screenshots, because they are easier to edit in the future. > > Do you want to help with the wording and/or screenshot tutorial? If yes, > what would be a preferred platform for shared editing of document? > PiratePad/GoogleDocs? > > Thanks! > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
