Crowdsourced Database of Local Businesses

[sanfordhess]

Our local governments lack a unified listing of businesses. Worse, if such a list were to be assembled, it would immediately be out of date.

Crowdsourcing to the rescue. While sites like Yelp and Google allow businesses to "claim" their location, citizens cannot mark businesses as closed, or easily add new ones. The goal is an app that allows people to easily mark, edit, and close business entries - with sufficient methods of review for people to maintain quality information. (Those people would probably be local government employees, with the participation of the business owners.)

[sanfordhess]

Ideas for collecting:

• Business Name
• Location (address/map)
• Type of business/sub-type
• Status

[sanfordhess]

"Place a business":

• List of values of types to place.
• Place it in a location
• ??Does crowdsource reporter allow voting??
• Voting with an "X" to not do it.