On Sun, 26 May 2019 at 10:51, bkil <bkil.hu...@gmail.com> wrote: > By the way, don't get me wrong, it is a perfectly valid desire to tag > these. $SUBJECT has occurred to me as well in the past. In such cases, I > looked for the full address, other text on mailboxes, on the building , on > the fence and in WLAN and PAN in the air and tried to research these on the > net. Based on the result, I can usually add a few POI's or companies there > and even adjust the surrounding landuse. If nothing turns up, it is > probably not a building of public interest. >
My approach is that if it's not obvious, I don't tag it. Because there could be a reason it's not obvious. That reason being they don't want the general public to know they operate at that location. For example, a one-man-and-a-dog company may operate from home. It's the correspondence address, it's listed with the appropriate authority as a company address, but they don't want people turning up at their door because it's not the kind of business where they interact with customers/clients/whatever. So address details only (house name/number, etc.), not company name. We need to be wary of the EU's GDPR. The company name for small businesses may be a person's name: "Fred Bloggs, Accountant." You may now be telling people where Fred Bloggs lives if he works from home. Not a problem if there's a sign outside saying "Fred Bloggs, Accountant." Probably not a problem if he has a web page giving his address. More of a problem if you have to ferret the information out. A big problem if you get the information from the WLAN. Bottom line: if a company makes it clear that they operate at a given location then we can map it. If they do not make it clear they operate at that location then we shouldn't map it. -- Paul
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