[Tagging] Automated edit of company name change

[Andrew Errington]

Thanks everyone for the tips.

I'm sure it's all stores:
http://koreajoongangdaily.joinsmsn.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2954734&cloc=joongangdaily|home|newslist2

but the points you all raised are good ones, thank you.  I am now in a
position to talk about what we should do and how we should do it on
the talk-ko list.

Best wishes,

Andrew

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Richard Mann
<richard.mann.westoxford at gmail.com> wrote:
> Extract all shop=convenience+name=FamilyMart from the Geofabrik country
> extract into an OSM file using osmosis. Load the file into JOSM. Select all
> and edit. Upload.
>
> I probably shouldn't have told you that. It's a bit too easy to mess things
> up...
>
> Richard
>
> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Andrew Errington <erringtona at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> Here in Korea a chain of convenience stores has changed its name
>> from "FamilyMart" to "CU".  All of the stores have had their signage and
>> livery removed and replaced with new signage and livery.
>>
>> What is the best way to perform essentially a country-wide
>> search-and-replace
>> for objects tagged shop=convenience, name=FamilyMart to change the name to
>> name=CU?  The objects could be nodes or areas.
>>
>> Naturally I want to follow the Mechanical Edit Policy properly, the first
>> step
>> being to raise the matter on this list.  I'd like to know how to actually
>> do
>> this task, so that when we discuss it on the talk-ko list I know how much
>> work will be involved both to do the change, and to verify the results.
>>
>> It is also quite possible that a Mechanical Edit is the Wrong Answer, and
>> it
>> would be better for me to encourage mappers here to coordinate our efforts
>> and update different areas by hand.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Andrew
>>
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