[OSM-talk] Tag name vs operator

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I would like to know how people are using the tag name and/or operator.
> It
> > was obvious for me that operator might come as an additional attribute
> but
> > it seems that the wiki is suggesting to replace name by operator. Or at
> > least, it's questionning on the page about amenity=bank:
> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dbank
>
> (In English the word "bank" can mean both a banking company and a
> building which banking companies serve customers. A 'branch' is one
> particular bank building).
>
> Banks seem like a bit of a special case, since people expect the map
> to display only the name of the banking company. The name should be
> the name of the particular branch something like "HSBC Putney" or
> "Santander Hounslow" or whatever that branch is called, but I don't
> think many people do that and it's not really that important. The
> operator would be the name of the company in any case.
>

In my country, we also use a branch=* tag to separate the name of the bank
(e.g. "Banco de Oro") or fast food or restaurant name ("McDonald's") from
the branch name. It's often enough to display just the name (as above) on
the map and the renderer or other tool has the flexible option to append the
branch name if it's needed or if there's is enough space to display it.
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