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

[M∡rtin Koppenhoefer]

2010/9/29 Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at earthlink.net>:
> At 2010-09-28 11:43, Sean Horgan wrote:
>
> 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  (starbucks, mcdonalds, home depot, Teleflora).  name, operator,
> and brand would normally be 3 different things in these cases.
>
> +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?


There is also no wikipage yet for Key:brand (if I didn't overlook it).
Can we try to make up a text and put it?

cheers,
Martin