Including Service, E-commerce Businesses into btcmap.org Functionality

[racarr202]

Hi,

I am the operator of the web site orangelabel.io which is a small directory created by the Australian Bitcoin Industry Body (ABIB). The web site is intended to list businesses that do not have a physical store-front and therefore do not fall within the purview of btcmap.org.

Does btcmap.org have any ongoing projects to add functionality which would enable service based businesses and e-commerce business to be listed?

[dadofsambonzuki]

Hey, yep this is on our roadmap.

I'd like to launch this feature this year.

We would enable services to be tagged with one of more areas (community, region, country, etc.) that are served by the service.

This data would necessarily sit outside of OSM, but will still be Open Data via the BTC Map API.

[racarr202]

I'd like to get involved to assist wherever possible.
Can you please point me in the right direction?

[dadofsambonzuki]

First step is to agree on a structure within our API. Discussion on that will happen here: teambtcmap/btcmap-api#22.

Second step, is to make changes to the Admin App and the Web App (inc Gitea data repo) to enable services be created by our taggers.

Third step is to show services within our apps, which needs some UX thought. Probably a simple way to do this initially is just list them under each of the tagged areas.

[racarr202]

I think I've answered my own question.
You guys have a discord server where you onboard people as 'supertaggers' which requires editing OSM.
I should get setup as a supertagger first then when the feature is released I'll work on merging the data I already have on orangelabel.io.

Anything I've missed?

[racarr202]

lol, we were typing at the same time.
Thanks for your information, I'll keep an eye on the discussion but I think at this stage the best contribution I can make is to get familiar with the processing of creating tags on your platform.

Thanks again for your time and speak soon.

[dadofsambonzuki]

Yes, get stuck in with tagging physical merchants in the meantime.

The processing of tagging services will be very similar, but using our admin app not OSM.