[Tagging] Business names in capital letters

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Sat Dec 14 01:25:04 UTC 2019


On 14/12/19 11:57, Paul Allen wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Dec 2019 at 00:44, Graeme Fitzpatrick 
> <graemefitz1 at gmail.com <mailto:graemefitz1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     When that is how the business name is shown, what is our policy
>     for it?
>
>
> How does the company itself capitalize its own name? Paint the label.  
> Even if it's
> an ugly label.
>

Names in use are not consistent ...

BHP is an abbreviation, yet many simply know it by the abbreviation.

HSBC bank also uses capitols.

I would tag the way that people commonly know it.

Perhaps as well as short_name OSM needs long_name where the short name 
is in common use?

The wiki is 'just' a guide.


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