Are store locations nodes?

Currently they are not nodes. I am curious what you are trying to do so that I have a better idea of what I might need to do. Thanks

Hi,
I am interested in this project. I would like to create custom node types (call them places_of_interest), with fields for the address components (among other things), and then be able to map them based on a User's location.
The most recognizable use of this would be if you were developing a Website for chain stores and wanted to be able to map the stores -- eg, throw up a map of all the McDonalds near 5th Ave & 60th St, with links to the individual stores' info.
I could potentially help on this project. I have Web coding/dev't experience, but am new to Drupal and just learning the system, so realistically won't be competent for a while.
Let me know whether this is of interest --

I see where you are going, what are your thoughts on a dual interface? Nodes and the standard entry for something like a reseller (mostly for backwards compatibility)? I am not sure how you could do a conversion so I would probably need to make a new branch....not the worst thing.....What you describe is similar to what my original purpose was but didn't need the node type. I can probably code it but cannot start for a week or two. I would need someone to do testing. There is some stuff out there using views and another module but I thought it was on the difficult side to use so I wrote this...

I would happy to do testing. For my purposes, I need the nodes because I am not doing stores (just used that as an example), will need various other fields. It would have been months before I would get up to speed on Drupal to write a module.

On top of which, would need to figure out how the Google Maps modules integrate with this . . . I would guess you want to standardize a couple of fields in the address (so that they can be used by many modules) so that they can be geocoded into lat & longs.

What other modules address this?

If my memory still works, it used gmap, location and views. I didn't feel like learning views just for this one thing so i wrote something that i thought would be easier.....in a week or so i will look at getting something together as a node.