[OSM-talk] Chain Store Cleanup

[Andrew MacKinnon]

I can confirm that McDonald's in Quebec, Canada have an apostrophe
from a Mapillary image of one in Gatineau, QC:
<http://www.mapillary.com/map/im/CYy8HTA4MeQouhZ6929gJw>. Reason being
that an apostrophe is "English" but it is allowed in Quebec (at least
nowadays) under French language laws.

I am aware that McDonald's in non-Latin scripts is different but I
assume that McDonald's has an apostrophe everywhere else. (Is there a
country where "McDonalds" is actually correct?)

If someone manages to get properly licensed data on store locations
from a large company, it might be useful to look at the data
integration functionality at <http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/>.
Simply importing data is a bad idea because there already are lots of
existing POIs in OSM (there are 14039 objects with name=McDonald's in
OSM and Wikipedia says there are about 35000 McDonald's restaurants in
the world, so OSM has slightly less than 50% of them), and because
imported data is often poor quality.

On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 5:52 PM, pmailkeey . <pmailkeey at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 1 May 2015 at 18:30, Imre Samu <pella.samu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > .. McDonald's  problem...
>>
>> Please don't forget the   true "McDonald's" problem!  It is a content
>> encoding hell.
>> and very hard to detect by any ordinary field mappers.
>>
>>   #1.
>> name="McDonald’s"    ( count=126 )  U+2019 ’ e2 80 99 "RIGHT SINGLE
>> QUOTATION MARK"
>> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/name=McDonald%E2%80%99s
>> http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/97c
>>
>>  #2.
>> name="McDonald´s"    ( count=40 )   U+00B4 ´ c2 b4 "ACUTE ACCENT"
>> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/name=McDonald%C2%B4s
>> http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/97e
>>
>>  #3.
>> name="McDonald's"   ( count=14039)   U+0027 ' 27 "APOSTROPHE"
>> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/name=McDonald's
>>
>> Regards,
>>  Imre
>>
>>
>
> Any hope of tracing the sources of #1 and #2 ? Such as Apple users ? and
> which editor was used?
>
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