[Tagging] "not:brand" to mark a shop that isn't part of a chain?

[Mark Wagner]

On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 10:52:01 -0400
Jmapb via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> On 9/14/2019 10:53 AM, Tim Magee wrote:
> > I would absolutely agree with this use case. Especially for cases
> > such as the regularly mentioned Burger King. If somebody from out
> > of town is either traveling through or armchair mapping they could
> > be confused. If they are using the ID editor, it suggests that you
> > "upgrade the tags" which could lead to a "Burger King" that is not
> > part of the international Burger King tag having the same
> > brand:wikidata tag.  
> 
> Personally I have a problem with the asymmetry of work that this
> requires from mappers who need to protect their work from iD versus
> mappers who blindly "upgrade" using iD.

It's not just iD that's the problem.  There's an industrial-supply
store I've been monitoring called "Safway", and even before the
invention of the name-suggestion index, well-meaning armchair mappers
would turn it into a grocery store called "Safeway".  A "not:brand" tag
would reduce the workload by letting iD cue mappers that no, this isn't
the well-known grocery store.

(There's also a "Maxwell House", but thankfully, most people realize
that the coffee brand doesn't operate restaurants.)

-- 
Mark