2014-09-03 11:07 GMT+02:00 Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org>: > I'm inclined to say: let's keep it as generic as possible - but then > what is the right generic term for a fork lift hire company? Is it "some > kind of vehicle hire"? If they rent out earth-moving equipment, are they > "some kind of vehicle hire" or rather "some kind of construction business"? >
it is indeed a problem that you have to decide in OSM. Maybe this second company is both, "construction business" and "vehicle hire"? Maybe someone looking to rent earth-moving equipment might search in both categories when in need for a new provider? > > Mappers will always find it easier to tag the concrete thing they see > rather than make the mental abstraction to find out what the generic > version is. But we can't have a catalogue of tens of thousands of > business types (none of which would cover the fork hire with optional > pretzels anyway), > so what is your suggestion? business=yes name=xy? I agree that we might not be able to capture all fine details about the offerings and services a company has put on the market, but we should IMHO have some reasonably detailed (not too generic) categories that allow for a search to create a basis on which you can then phone the individual company for more details. This is something you will probably have to do anyway, because the fork lift company might have temporarily run out of fork lifts in the size you need. Another thing that comes to my mind: maybe we could indeed create this catalogue of tens of thousands of business types - who if not us will be able to do such a work? This doesn't imply the mapper would have to scroll long lists of thousands of entries, it could be well structured from coarse to fine. cheers, Martin
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