[ANN] CoinMap 2.0! (Map showing places where Bitcoin is accepted) - page 20.

melacs

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So, I ended up just saying "screw it" and removed them. There are a gazillion online shops that accept BTC, and they aren't on coinmap. Coinmap, and openstreetmaps, are maps, not meant for online spamming.

Good job, I'd say. No one is served by empty locations.

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My next question is, is there a way to see all of the new businesses that are added to coinmap? It's really cool checking from time to time and seeing 20 new locations on coinmap, but I never know where they are. I'd like to see all of the new ones every day. Is this possible?

It would be cool indeed, but it doesn't add any direct use value, so I guess that is why it hasn't been implemented? I would like to hear a reply on this too.

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Quote from: Daily Anarchist on December 15, 2013, 11:02:16 PM

I hate to be "that guy" but I've noticed several locations on coinmap in my area that have no physical presence. They might be businesses with contact information of people that will meet up or something or link to a facebook page or website. But no building that sells goods and services. I've considered removing them from coinmap.

Thoughts?

I agree. As stick put it earlier in this thread: if something is on a map, one expects it to be there. I got carried away myself initially and would post every bitcoin business I'd came across, to get "the numbers up". After stick made his point I took the ones without physical presence off the map.

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So, I ended up just saying "screw it" and removed them. There are a gazillion online shops that accept BTC, and they aren't on coinmap. Coinmap, and openstreetmaps, are maps, not meant for online spamming.

My next question is, is there a way to see all of the new businesses that are added to coinmap? It's really cool checking from time to time and seeing 20 new locations on coinmap, but I never know where they are. I'd like to see all of the new ones every day. Is this possible?

Daily Anarchist

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I hate to be "that guy" but I've noticed several locations on coinmap in my area that have no physical presence. They might be businesses with contact information of people that will meet up or something or link to a facebook page or website. But no building that sells goods and services. I've considered removing them from coinmap.

Thoughts?

ttasterisco

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Quote from: stick on December 12, 2013, 03:07:34 PM

Good news! Bitcoin Pulse now tracks number of venues on CoinMap - http://www.bitcoinpulse.com/chart/coinmap/num_venues/total

Hey guys, that's correct! And the numbers on Bitcoin Pulse are updated daily at around 10:00PM GMT.

stick

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Good news! Bitcoin Pulse now tracks number of venues on CoinMap - http://www.bitcoinpulse.com/chart/coinmap/num_venues/total

Carlton Banks

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Quote from: stick on December 12, 2013, 10:32:22 AM

Quote from: Carlton Banks on December 12, 2013, 10:23:36 AM

Beware. Open Street Map Foundation have abruptly stopped accepting bitcoin donations. Who knows if this lack of openness might extend to uses of their data that promote cryptocurrency, which is of course a commercial tool.

Source? I can still see bitcoin address at the bottom of the http://donate.openstreetmap.org/ page and here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Donations ...

They have restructured their webpresence a little, and the new Foundation website donation page makes no mention of a bitcoin option. But maybe this is just an oversight, I guess we will see whether they get their various donation pages to be consistent with each other. I couldn't see the link to the old wiki you've linked, I assumed it was now replaced, but I have found their layout a little difficult to navigate before (I once spent 10-15 minutes looking for their source code policy, and just assumed they didn't publish a statement on it. Someone else managed to find it, though)

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Quote from: Carlton Banks on December 12, 2013, 10:23:36 AM

Beware. Open Street Map Foundation have abruptly stopped accepting bitcoin donations. Who knows if this lack of openness might extend to uses of their data that promote cryptocurrency, which is of course a commercial tool.

Source? I can still see bitcoin address at the bottom of the http://donate.openstreetmap.org/ page and here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Donations ...

Carlton Banks

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Beware. Open Street Map Foundation have abruptly stopped accepting bitcoin donations. Who knows if this lack of openness might extend to uses of their data that promote cryptocurrency, which is of course a commercial tool.

Edit: maybe I was being impatient with the layout of the OpenStreetMap Foundation's donation pages, they have 3 different webpages for donations and I managed to find the only one without bitcoin details.

brasil

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Brazilian Portuguese translation added on GitHub.

Flag: http://coinmap.org/img/flags/br.png

Hugs,

stick

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Quote from: melacs on December 11, 2013, 08:28:08 PM

I have tried to add a Japanese translation. Could someone check if I used Github right? If not, I'll just e-mail the code.

It's OK. Soon it'll appear on the site.

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Feel free to fix the German translation or add new ones to lang folder via email or pull Github requests. Thanks!

I have tried to add a Japanese translation. Could someone check if I used Github right? If not, I'll just e-mail the code.

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Quote from: domob on December 11, 2013, 02:57:34 AM

Quote from: nvK on December 11, 2013, 12:50:27 AM

Quote from: stick on December 04, 2013, 08:10:38 PM

Quote from: nvK on December 04, 2013, 05:50:55 PM

The plan is to programmatically push all this locations to Coinmap!

Good news, but please make sure you read the whole thread about OpenStreetMap Bitcoin spamming - https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2013-December/068735.html - we have to find common ground there ... That, of course, applies to all CoinMap contributors, not just folks from CoinKite.

Right, why would it be spamming? If a retailer has a terminal he will effectively be a place accepting btc.

Ok, I think that sounds reasonable. But it should still be made sure that the place is appropriately tagged as what it really is (probably with an appropriate shop= tag, but also other things like address, opening_hours and so on are welcome). Also note that "programmatically pushing" may fall under the "import rules" of OSM, so I suggest you check your intentions also with the OSM mailing list to make sure no-one is offended and reverses your automatic edits.

If we don't make it easy/automated most mom and pop shops will never do it.

PS: this will only happen next year, by then we will figure out the best way of dealing with their specs.

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Quote from: nvK on December 11, 2013, 12:50:27 AM

Quote from: stick on December 04, 2013, 08:10:38 PM

Quote from: nvK on December 04, 2013, 05:50:55 PM

The plan is to programmatically push all this locations to Coinmap!

Good news, but please make sure you read the whole thread about OpenStreetMap Bitcoin spamming - https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2013-December/068735.html - we have to find common ground there ... That, of course, applies to all CoinMap contributors, not just folks from CoinKite.

Right, why would it be spamming? If a retailer has a terminal he will effectively be a place accepting btc.

Ok, I think that sounds reasonable. But it should still be made sure that the place is appropriately tagged as what it really is (probably with an appropriate shop= tag, but also other things like address, opening_hours and so on are welcome). Also note that "programmatically pushing" may fall under the "import rules" of OSM, so I suggest you check your intentions also with the OSM mailing list to make sure no-one is offended and reverses your automatic edits.

nvK

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Quote from: CoinsForTech on December 04, 2013, 07:55:09 PM

Quote from: nvK on December 04, 2013, 05:50:55 PM

So, some developments.

We will allow retailers to easily create a listing for their store and put it on the map.
The plan is to programmatically push all this locations to Coinmap!

Check out the first example: https://coinkite.com/terminals/a148c4af-2af7-4902-a42b-5ee6455e9651

Neat! Really nice site too

Thanks, did you try it yet, let me know if you need invite.

Quote from: stick on December 04, 2013, 08:10:38 PM

Quote from: nvK on December 04, 2013, 05:50:55 PM

The plan is to programmatically push all this locations to Coinmap!

Good news, but please make sure you read the whole thread about OpenStreetMap Bitcoin spamming - https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2013-December/068735.html - we have to find common ground there ... That, of course, applies to all CoinMap contributors, not just folks from CoinKite.

Right, why would it be spamming? If a retailer has a terminal he will effectively be a place accepting btc.

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Wow, first time seeing this. A cool site I can show for those who say there's nothing to buy with bitcoin.

melacs

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I have to second that motion. It would be useful too to have a lots of people check out the newly added places so that any spam could be discovered easily.

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Hey, just thought I would add in a feature request: the ability to show only the places that were added in the last X days? (maybe just some defaults like last week, last month, last year, etc.)

I am constantly checking coinmap.org to see "what's new" and although I can see that it's growing, it's hard to tell which of the merchants are the new ones to be added to the map!

stick

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I just merged a patch from komachi that adds localization support.

Feel free to fix the German translation or add new ones to lang folder via email or pull Github requests. Thanks!

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I wish a Bitcoin copycat wasn't added..

Quote from: ThePurplePlanet on December 07, 2013, 02:24:56 AM

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I can't believe that you of all people are using your site to promote Litecoin! As many people go there to add Bitcoin they will get their first exposure to Litecoin. And since it is easy to add Litecoin after doing the infrastructure for Bitcoin it's a no brainer to add Litecoin as well. Now Litecoin can grow and devalue Bitcoin. I personally would have preferred a separate website but whatever it's your site, I'm just sad you don't see how helping Litecoin is actually going to hurt Bitcoin.

Hey a newbie here. I am disgusted by the greed of the bitcoin community. So your goal now that bitcoin goes mainstream to find another coin to dump on people? You are greedy and need to self destruct. Where this will end? The community selling their ideals like that is not a good thing. http://www.reddit.com/r/LitecoinProjects/comments/1s7ifh/completed_bounties/. So bitcoin you think will have a slower rate of increase... lets inflate to make more money. Thats the way you think?

If someone's greedy, they would just buy into every new coin that comes along, to position themselves as 'early adopters' in case the new blockchain takes off.

The reason why people don't like copycats is that they diminish the digital scarcity of Bitcoin-based currency. If a Bitcoin 2 is created with 4 times as many coins, and almost every other feature the same, its coins will be interchangeable with the coins in the Bitcoin blockchain to the degree that they are accepted, and that will lead to devaluation/inflation of bitcoins, and with it, a loss of Bitcoin's usefulness as a store of value.

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