[OSM-talk] brand=...

[David Earl]

On 23/10/2008 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 must admit I had missed 'operator' (which is on Map features). I'll 
now do the same for that.

David