[OSM-talk] Tag name vs operator
Alan Mintz
Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.Net
Tue Jul 13 08:27:58 BST 2010
At 2010-07-12 23:45, Lester Caine wrote:
>...
>As others have pointed out, 'brand' may be a better choice of 'name' in
>some cases, but in reality there are THREE possible tags in many of these
>cases. For example
>name=the fancy hotel
>brand=best western
>operator=the local best western franchise
In case we want to include the franchise tag in whatever we come up with
here, I'd like to pick a small nit.
The "franchise" is the actual license or right granted to the "franchisee"
(e.g. Bob Smith dba The Fancy Hotel) by the "franchisor" (e.g. Best Western
Hotels).
Personally, I think "franchise" is un-necessary, since name, brand, and
operator seem to clearly identify the roles of each name/person/company in
the examples we've talked about, not to mention that the relationship may
not necessarily or technically be a franchise, and this would be near
impossible to determine casually.
>Our local supermarket is a budgens but ...
>brand=budgens
>operator=Guy Warner Group
>In this case the 'name' might be 'Guy Warner Budgens' as appears on the
>local sign.
>
>petrol stations and other 'franchise' type operations will have the same
>more complex relations ... BUT for example, I have a 'fast fuel' fuel card
>which can be used at any Texaco garage, but the operator of those garages
>may not be Texaco, so should I be adding a 'fastfuel'=yes tag or
>brand=Texaco to identify this ... Just another piece of the branding jigsaw.
>
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