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OSM is open, but it is still centralized. It doesn't come to your webpage and get the information about your hours from you (as far as I can tell)
by dwighttk 8y ago
OSM is open, but it is still centralized. It doesn't come to your webpage and get the information about your hours from you (as far as I can tell)
- floren 8y agoA hybrid approach seems sensible: the OSM data contains a vetted/known URL for your business, then your client uses that URL to fetch the hours from the website. In a perfect world, anyway.
- rmc 8y agoOSM is a wiki, anyone can edit things, and there's wiki-like community review. So the owner of a business can add the details if they want, or someone walking past and looking at a sign can.
- dwighttk 8y agoRight but the semantic web idea is that the business owner puts the hours on their site and that lets everyone who wants to know the hours. No central site (OSM, google, yelp) required. I mean the person looking for the hours would probably go to one of those sites, but the hours wouldn’t be stored there.