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Re:Organic Maps by OfSanguineFire on Friday September 01, 2023 @06:31AM (#37348961)
Because a Facebook page is the business’s own advertisement, you can add the opening hours displayed there straight to OpenStreetMap. (Google’s information obviously cannot be copied into OSM, and sometimes its opening hours are guessed from visitor data instead of added by the business itself.)

> This is why I always add the website as the most important field for a POI

It has been over a decade now since most physical-retail businesses began giving up on their own websites, using only Facebook pages instead, unless they are part of large chains.

Re:Organic Maps by teddyh on Friday September 01, 2023 @09:26AM (#37350533)
> It has been over a decade now since most physical-retail businesses began giving up on maintaining their own websites, using only Facebook pages instead, unless they are part of large chains.

This was indeed a trend a few years ago, but it is not true anymore, in my personal experience. Even tiny shops, if they are only a bit more technologically knowledgable than average, tend to have their own web page.