[Tagging] Proposal: logo tag. Opinions?

[Tobias Knerr]

On 19.09.2017 16:27, José G Moya Y. wrote:
> It's up to
> the rendering app creators to decide if they want to display some shops
> using its logos. In that case, the app would probably have some other
> way to display them.

What way would that be?

Unless we want each render style author to maintain their own worldwide
database of company logos (which would not only be redundant, but also
far too much work for most rendering development teams), the logos need
to be available either directly in OSM or in an external resource – such
as Wikidata – linked from OSM.

For what it's worth, I think a logo tag could have it's place. I prefer
using Wikidata where possible, but Wikidata has notability guidelines
that will probably prevent creating an item for smaller stores that are
not part of a major national or international brand. What I particularly
like about the proposal is the focus on using Commons, as their
machine-readable license templates give us at least a chance at managing
the legal issues.