[Talk-us] Proper & Consistent Spelling (was: Fast food vs. restaurant vs. cafe)

[David ``Smith'']

[cross-posted to talk-us and newbies; original thread on talk-us]

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Katie Filbert <filbertk at gmail.com> wrote:
> * COSI (restaurant or cafe?)

What's that one?  Around here, COSI (formerly an acronym, still
all-caps) is a science museum.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COSI_Columbus>  We do, however, have
several locations of the restaurant Così.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cos%C3%AC_%28restaurant%29>  That's a
word, not an acronym.  I don't know why, but it seems it's rather
often written COSI.  Just like how a lot of stores get a phantom 's'
added on the end, or sometimes removed: Meijers, Krogers, Aldi's,
Walgreen.  I've seen these incorrect names in the OSM data, too.  We
should get the word out to new users: "Make sure you know the correct
name of a place when you add it to OSM."  (Or, is misspelled data
better than no data?)

Maybe this just annoys me because I can't understand how people get
these things wrong in the first place...

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David "Smith"
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