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At 2010-09-28 11:43, Sean Horgan wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Hotels are similar to petrol
stations in that many are independently owned and operated but rely
heavily on the brand for marketing. Â Coffee shops, Â fastfood
restaurants and any other franchise-business fall into the same bucket Â
(starbucks, mcdonalds, home depot, Teleflora). Â name, operator, and
brand would normally be 3 different things in these
cases.</blockquote><br>
+1 The operator is usually the least apparent, being found only on a
plaque somewhere or a business license, and may be the same as the brand,
in the case of company-owned stores. Many JOSM presets get this wrong by
offering the operator tag for this seldom-known info and not the
more commonly-known brand tag, causing people to reverse the two, as does
the fuzzy language in the wiki. We settled this a while back - can
someone review the JOSM presets?<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:56,
M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
<<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:
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<dd>2010/9/28 Sean Horgan
<<a href="mailto:seanhorgan@gmail.com">seanhorgan@gmail.com</a>>:
<dd>> sounds good, no objections.<br><br>
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<dd>OK, as this is IMHO no real change, I put it in the wiki.<br><br>
<dd>Now I realized something else:
<dd>according to the German ML for tagging certain objects 3 tags are
useful:
<dd>name, operator, brand<br><br>
<dd>e.g. a petrol station:
<dd>name would be the _name_ of the specific petrol station
<dd>operator would be the name of the company or person running this
<dd>specific station
<dd>brand would be the name of the chain, e.g. BP, Shell, etc.<br><br>
<dd>Now looking at the wiki and getting this example:
<dd>Â Â * tourism=hotel
<dd>  * name=Le Méridien Piccadilly (the name of the specific
hotel)
<dd>  * operator=Le Méridien (the name of the company that runs
the
<dd>hotel, and which maybe run other hotels too)</blockquote>
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Knowing nothing else, the operator key should be brand. If one knows that
the chain actually manages/operates this hotel itself, the
"operator=Le Méridien" tag would be appropriate as well.<br>
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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM@Earthlink.net><br>
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