evilbunny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Exactly. And I'd strongly recommend including the commercial sites with a flag and a link to the commercial organization providing the access.Adding a drop down for community/commercial has been on the books for me, just hadn't had a high priority, then people can filter which they see... first and foremost community comes first but I see no harm if we can filter and allow commercial sites as well, as long as they are clearly marked as such, perhaps not everyone will agree with me, but I get way way way too many questions about where can I get net access when I'm holiday in xyz city...
Again, absolutely. The big reason for querying the database is the one you give. "I find myself here, where's the nearest WiFi point where I can get myself online." Where online means check my email and surf the web. People interested in the various community efforts who are experimenting with parallel internets will probably find each other without needing to search nodedb.Perhaps that's another option needed... supply internet access, as not all community access point do...
Would it help to have someone trawl the commercial sites, extract their node data and enter it into nodedb? Sending emails to their CRM depts to try and get *them* to do it, is likely to fail ;-(
BTW. This reminds me of the Syndic8.com project to document every RSS newsfeed. That got a big boost by two or three people spending the time to track down and enter the first 5000 entries. Make it easy for people to do the mass upload and people will probably come out of the woodwork to help.
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