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21 sats \ 8 replies \ @Car 12 Mar freebie \ on: BTC Map Launched: Countries Leaderboard bitcoin
Always hilarious Austin or Texas never seems to exist on these things. This is why focusing on your backyard, then state, then country, then world is the way. The outright ignoring people, companies and/or city’s and states existing in the ecosystem is always sus to me when I see it.
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0 sats \ 7 replies \ @nout OP 12 Mar
Volunteers enter those records manually to Open Street Maps. Btcmap is just displaying it. It's public open data. So someone in Texas would have to do it and keep it up to date, that's all that's missing 😉
There are many communities around the world that keep the details up to date. For example in Germany the community organizes here https://einundzwanzig.space/
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21 sats \ 6 replies \ @Car 12 Mar freebie
So you’re saying unless you have Bitcoin in your name you get left out. Because I’m seeing results of places in Texas that show up. If that is the case, these databases don’t scale properly.
Human curation for a human movement is the way.
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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @nout OP 12 Mar freebie
No, that's not how it works. It doesn't guess that you accept bitcoin based on the name.
People (anyone) have to go to https://www.openstreetmap.org and do the human curation - e.g. add metadata/tags to your business and select whether you accept onchain, lightning, etc.
So for example you can create account on https://www.openstreetmap.org and add tags to any location in Texas that you want. Sort of like updating wikipedia. And then this will show up on btcmap (and also on other similar maps / applications that use the same base data from OSM)