Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 12:47:37 +0100
From: Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com>
To: "Tag discussion, strategy and related tools"
<tagging@openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [Tagging] Tagging buildings that people work in
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
I agree with everything you said, but I'm not considering these types of
situations. I'm only considering buildings where it's obvious they are
only used as a place of employment, and not a residence. Mainly I'm
thinking of buildings visible in aerial photos.
Mark
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