[Talk-ca] Canadian OSM POI quality

[Minh Nguyen]

On 2014-06-08 21:57, Paul Norman wrote:
> Inconsistent tagging was observed with some shops, such as variability
> between amenity=restaurant and amenity=fast_food. This should reflect
> differences between locations but may not. Inconsistent names were also
> observed, such as "Walmart", "Wal-mart", and "Wal Mart". These issues
> are not as significant as the large percentage of missing shops.

Inconsistency with Walmart is to be expected, since signs would've read 
"Wal★Mart" until at least 2008. [1]

All the apostrophe-esses in your results made me wonder how common it is 
to curl apostrophes in POI names. Overpass turbo shows 17,258 nodes and 
1,263 ways with a name containing "’s" (in any language). [2] Few of 
them appear in Canada. (Most of the results there are for David Thompson 
Explorer’s Trail in Alberta and Cook’s Creek in Manitoba.)

[1] http://corporate.walmart.com/our-story/history/walmart-logo-timeline
[2] http://overpass-turbo.eu/?w=%22name%22~%22%E2%80%99s%22

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minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us