[Tagging] operator and brand WAS: Re: community centres

[Sean Horgan]

Hotels are similar to petrol stations in that many are independently owned
and operated but rely heavily on the brand for marketing.  Coffee shops,
 fastfood restaurants and any other franchise-business fall into the same
bucket  (starbucks, mcdonalds, home depot, Teleflora).  name, operator, and
brand would normally be 3 different things in these cases.

Sean

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:56, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
<dieterdreist at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2010/9/28 Sean Horgan <seanhorgan at gmail.com>:
> > sounds good, no objections.
>
>
> OK, as this is IMHO no real change, I put it in the wiki.
>
> Now I realized something else:
> according to the German ML for tagging certain objects 3 tags are useful:
> name, operator, brand
>
> e.g. a petrol station:
> name would be the _name_ of the specific petrol station
> operator would be the name of the company or person running this
> specific station
> brand would be the name of the chain, e.g. BP, Shell, etc.
>
> Now looking at the wiki and getting this example:
>    * tourism=hotel
>    * name=Le Méridien Piccadilly (the name of the specific hotel)
>    * operator=Le Méridien (the name of the company that runs the
> hotel, and which maybe run other hotels too)
>
> I notice a slightly different approach ;-)
>
> any comments/opinions?
>
> cheers,
> Martin
>
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