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At 2010-07-12 13:25, Pieren wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>I would like to know how people are
using the tag name and/or operator. </blockquote><br>
I think operator has been mis-used. It appears in a lot of JOSM presets
where I believe it is incorrect. <br><br>
For gas stations, the name of the supplying oil company would be properly
described as the "brand" (e.g. Shell, Mobil). If someone asked
me for the "operator" of the station, I would take this to be
synonymous with "owner", and it would be unlikely to know who
it is (or care) unless I knew them personally, or went there often and
saw their name repeated on my credit card statement. I'd like to
tag:<br><br>
brand=Shell<br>
name="Bob Smith Auto" (if I happen to know it)<br>
operator=* would be redundant unless it were a third party.<br><br>
Note that despite not being documented, "brand" is one of the
keys in which JOSM looks for a name to render (after name:xx, name,
int_name, ref, and operator). The renderers do not, but I believe should,
if we can agree on its use.<br><br>
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Similarly, while a hotel might be called "Ocala Marriott", it
is likely that it is owned and operated by something like "AQV
Hospitality, LLC" under a license/franchise agreement. I would like
to tag:<br><br>
name="Ocala Marriott"<br>
brand=Marriott<br>
operator="AQV Hospitality, LLC" (if I happen to know
it)<br><br>
<br>
Another example would be new car dealers:<br><br>
name="Fletcher Jones Motorcars"<br>
brand=Mercedes<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>It was obvious for me that operator
might come as an additional attribute but it seems that the wiki is
suggesting to replace name by operator. Or at least, it's questionning on
the page about amenity=bank:<br>
<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dbank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dbank</a></blockquote><br>
I would tag name=*. operator and brand would seem redundant (in the US at
least). ref could be used for the branch name and/or number.<br>
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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM@Earthlink.net><br>
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