On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 2:17 PM,
jamesmikedupont(a)googlemail.com <
jamesmikedupont(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
You have this directory already!
Just extract all the deleted articles that are not notible.
you will have all the small business that got deleted.
In fact that is the biggest pain that people face, they get deleted.
We need some way to keep pages from being deleted, but moved.
I think first there needs to be a place to move them to. OSM has come a
long way since I first proposed Wikiteer, which was meant to be a
combination of items of local interest which were deleted as non-notable
plus the GIS support structure to map them. Nowadays I'm comfortable
letting OSM manage the GIS/mapping aspect and sticking to just the
description pages (phone numbers, addresses, websites, operating hours,
maybe even some topic specific info like menus or admission prices or show
schedules).
OSM supports address and websites.
It could store all the data in fact, it is free form.
you could have key=price-food-hambuger val=1$ if you want.
Basically you can store all the data that google local does in osm.
But people want to have a wikipage for themselves. Small business etc.
mike