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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @nout OP 12 Mar freebie \ parent \ on: BTC Map Launched: Countries Leaderboard bitcoin
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)
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @Car 13 Mar
Why not just grab results from Google or Meetup? In the world of automation and api’s why leverage something like openstreetmap? It should be leveraging all platforms and aggregators regardless, hence 🚩 leaving communities out.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @nout OP 13 Mar freebie
How do you find that the little food truck accepts Bitcoin over lightning by Googling if the food truck doesn't even have a website? (In the US food trucks probably have websites, but definitely not in the rest of the world)
I'm still not following on your argument or how do you propose this to be done? The solution has many problems (records get outdated, some shops require custom app, it's somewhat tricky to enter data, etc), but I don't really see how this could be done better in a major way? The communities I know had to manually call the businesses to do the verification (or chat them over WhatsApp, which is the main business channel in South America).
The work is done by individuals, the btcmap team as far as I can tell only provides tooling support and the app.