[OSM-talk] Chain Store Cleanup

[SomeoneElse]

On 02/05/2015 02:18, Andrew MacKinnon wrote:
> .... The same is true with an amenity=restaurant called Subway, since 
> it should be amenity=fast_food and any Subway that is not the well 
> known chain would almost certainly be sued by the well known chain and 
> forced to changed its name.

I wouldn't be so sure here.

As an example, there's a bakery chain in the UK called "Greggs". They're 
mostly tagged "shop=bakery" (with a few Subway-esque "amenity=fast_food" 
/ "cuisine=sandwich" as well).  Occasionally shops like this get wrongly 
tagged, sometimes as "amenity=cafe", and there's always a temptation to 
"just fix them".  However, guess what?  Yesterday I accidentally walked 
past a genuine Greggs "amenity=cafe":

http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3490805096

It seems to share staff with the neighbouring bakery, but is entirely 
separate inside.  A better approach to "tidying up" shops is the one 
that Math1985 has been using in the UK - add a note, and get some local 
feedback to separate the genuine errors from the unexpected ones:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/303935

A Subway _restaurant_ is clearly a bit of a stretch, but not entirely 
impossible.  I'd definitely add notes rather than remotely fixing 
these.  Alternatively, perhaps contact the previous mapper?

Cheers,

Andy