<html><head></head><body>Any contributor interested in these Netto shops can edit the name, add an operator tag or else to distinguish them. <br>
If they are not interested or do not know better, then the should not do anything. <br>
If they are interested but not contributors, they can contribute. <br>
Yves <br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Le 3 octobre 2017 12:46:10 GMT+02:00, Michael Reichert <osm-ml@michreichert.de> a écrit :<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Hi Andy,<br /><br />Am 2017-09-27 um 17:57 schrieb Andy Townsend:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 27/09/2017 15:35, John F. Eldredge wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"> The spatial information will tell you where each business location is;<br /> it is not sufficient to tell you whether these are multiple locations<br /> of the same brand, or two unrelated brands that share the same name<br /> and category of business.<br /></blockquote> <br /> Can anyone think of an example where two unrelated brands share the same<br /> name and category of business in the same geographical area?<br /></blockquote><br />Netto in Germany. Both companies have shops in some German states.<br />Officially, one of them is called "Netto Marken-Discount" and the other<br />one just "Netto". But people call them both "Netto" and there are<br />multiple towns and cities which have both Netto and Netto shops. Because<br />you cannot expect any OSM mapper to add more than name=* and<br />shop=supermarket, you cannot decided without additional sources which<br />brand a Netto supermarket belongs to.<br /><br />Best regards<br /><br />Michael<br /></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>