[OSM-talk] Another large edit gone wrong (McDonald's)

[Alan Mintz]

At 2011-03-04 10:54, Dave F. wrote:
>On 04/03/2011 15:17, Toby Murray wrote:
>>Talking about it on IRC, someone noticed that the same user did a
>>similar thing with WalMart ->  Walmart which also resulted in the same
>>error.
>>
>>http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/7454666
>
>Just to be clear -  McDonald's (with a possessive apostrophe) is correct 
>when used for the infamous burger chain:
>
>http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/websites.html
>
>Yes, I know it shouldn't have, but that's the way they want it

What do you mean? The fictional character is Ronald McDonald, and it's his 
joint, so possessive is appropriate, no?

I very carefully created a fast food preset that I use daily, looking at 
signs and websites to determine exact spelling and punctuation of the 
names, only to now find out that JOSM silently ignores single quotes in 
preset values (i.e. name="McDonald's" tags name=McDonalds) :(. I've updated 
the wiki page to document the unusual escaping methodology (' must be 
represented by '') and "fixed" my presets. At some point, I will probably 
entertain a bulk data fix, but I'll be sure to talk about it first.


>The user also amended drive_through to drive_thru, but has since reverted 
>those.

Is drive_through=yes the accepted tag now? When I started, I couldn't find 
one, so I emulated the access=* style and used motorcar=yes on any 
amenity=fast_food|restaurant that has a drive-through. I tag motorcar=no on 
amenity=fast_food that specifically doesn't have it, but do not tag 
anything on amenity=restaurant (since most of what I consider restaurants 
would need to be tagged "no"). Should these be changed?


>It reminded be to check up on taginfo for 'donuts'. There's over 130 of 
>them (excluding names).

I'm surprised that's all. As you point out, it is acceptable enough that it 
is often used in names.


>Can anyone think of any other crude labelling that should be corrected?

Now that's funny. Last time I looked at TW, I was exhausted before I got to 
about ak*.

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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>