[OSM-talk] brand=...

[Shaun McDonald]

On 23 Oct 2008, at 12:18, Dave Stubbs wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:05 PM, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com 
> > wrote:
>> I notice there is increasing use of a tag brand=... for things like
>> shops, fuel, banks, atms etc. This seems like a good idea to me, as  
>> the
>> name of something ("Murkets Corner filling station") can be different
>> from its branding ("Shell"). Often you'd use them interchangeable
>> ("Starbucks" doesn't often have a specific name, other than perhaps  
>> the
>> name of the street or town to which it applies, which is probably  
>> clear
>> from the context).
>>
>> As this seems to be in fairly common use, I'll add it to map  
>> features as
>> it isn't mentioned anywhere explicitly yet.
>>
>> Also, I will change the Name finder to start recognising it. New or
>> amended 'brand's will get into the index fairly soon, but existing  
>> ones
>> won't until I rebuild the index from a complete planet file, which I
>> intend to do over Christmas (it will take at least a week to do  
>> this).
>>
>
> Do you pay attention to the operator= tag at all?
> I can imagine people are using it for a similar purpose (although
> strictly speaking it's a different thing again, as a lot of these
> things are actually franchises, and I'm not sure how that works :-)).
>

I think that operator works bettor for public transport things,  
whereas brand would work better for shops.

Shaun

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