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<p>There was an action a couple of years ago in the Netherlands to unify the orthography of shop names..... It was very successful, after a consultation.</p>
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<p>Here's the link to the discussion on the forum - unfortunately it's all in Dutch... <a href="https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=33909">https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=33909</a></p>
<p>The originator of the project was Matthijs Melissen, who make wiki pages for the mechanical edit process that ensued: <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Math1985_mechanical">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Math1985_mechanical</a></p>
<p>Colin</p>
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<p>On 2018-05-03 18:34, Leon Karcher wrote:</p>
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<div>I thought about unifying large store/restaurant chains with several locations for many times now. There are some tags that are applicable to all locations of a specific brand like brand=*, amenity=*/shop=*, cuisine=* for restaurants and for some also name=*. Espacially name=* and brand=* are important to find and filter POI.</div>
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<div>To have an overview I created a <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Doktorpixel14/Brands" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">list in the wiki</a> which includes applicable tags of some brands, but it's still under construction and only shows the ones that I know. So feel free to help.</div>
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<div>I already did a small unification for "Applebee's" locations in Ohio (see <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/58652839" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">this changeset</a>). To do so I filtered out name=Applebee's and name=Applebees via Overpass and reviewed the changes manually. Even though I did the changes manually, this is sort of a mechanical edit, which is the reason for me to ask on this mailing list on your opinion about such changes. And also: What do you think of having such a list of brands?</div>
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<div>Hope to hear some opinions,</div>
<div>Leon/doktorpixel14</div>
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