[Tagging] Wikidata tag

Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Fri Mar 1 15:23:36 UTC 2013


2013/2/27 Peter Wendorff <wendorff at uni-paderborn.de>:
> Am 27.02.2013 13:01, schrieb Pieren:
>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Peter Wendorff
>> <wendorff at uni-paderborn.de> wrote:
>> About "McDonalds" or "McDonald's", define the standard value, call
>> XAPI/overpass or keepright/osmose to find them and fix the wrong
>> values with JOSM. It takes 2 minutes and the problem is closed.
>
> -1
> You would create new bugs for the plumber McDonalds, the taxi company
> McDonalds and many more, who are NOT named McDonald's (or vice versa).


+1, this already happened in the past and was reverted (someone wanted
to unify all kinds of McDonald's and didn't think before that not all
of them would be fast-food restaurants of the famous brand). Anyway,
operator is not the right key in many cases (but in some cases it is)
while brand is IMHO good for all.

Cheers,
Martin



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