I have to say that this is all getting rather intense. We are talking about one
chain of shops! And clearly we aren't going to get an agreement on
standardisation.
To be honest I've never quite understood the obsession with mapping individual
shops. Fine if it is done everywhere, but it isn't.
So the question is - what makes you think that 'Footwear' is part of
the name, rather than a description of the products they sell?
How about their about page?
http://www.brantano.co.uk/en-gb/desktop/about-us
Brantano Footwear was established in the UK in 1998
Ed
And just to add further confusion into the mix the UK Ltd company is registered
at companies house as BRANTANO (UK) LIMITED
Cheers
Andy
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From: Ed Loach [mailto:edlo...@gmail.com]
Sent: 05 November 2014 08:55
To: 'Matthijs Melissen'; 'Talk GB'
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB]
On Wed, 2014-11-05 at 08:32 +, Stuart Reynolds wrote:
I have to say that this is all getting rather intense. We are talking
about one chain of shops! And clearly we aren't going to get an
agreement on standardisation.
We aren't, and to be honest the data consumer can post process whether
At last! A grain of ground truth. Map what you can see +1 to that
On 4 November 2014 22:17, Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote:
On 04/11/14 22:04, Colin Smale wrote:
Hang on a minute... the name tag should contain the most common name, or,
as the wiki puts it, the common default name.
Mapping small shops is probably of limited use, but I do try to remove
the bias of what I do map and sometimes the only way is to map
everything. As a community dominated by male geeks we do tend to
add POIs in the order of pubs, take aways, food shops, petrol stations.
That said pubs are
On 05/11/14 08:32, Stuart Reynolds wrote:
I have to say that this is all getting rather intense. We are talking
about one chain of shops! And clearly we aren't going to get an
agreement on standardisation.
The 'one chain of shops' has perhaps masked my objection to the general
process. There
On 2 November 2014 13:24, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl wrote:
Because I think
it is important to act as carefully as possible when executing
automatic edits, I have stopped the voting, and will bring this
proposal back to the discussion phase.
Thank you all for your input.
From
On 05/11/2014 17:24, Matthijs Melissen wrote:
Could you please have a look at
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_Edits/Math1985/UK_Shop_Names
if there are any other changes that need removing or changing?
Wilkinson we know are in a process of rebranding to Wilko; so I
might be
On 05/11/14 08:32, Stuart Reynolds wrote:
To be honest I've never quite understood the obsession with mapping
individual shops. Fine if it is done everywhere, but it isn't. Shops
come and go, and if I was to do this in Southend High Street I'd have to
walk up it on a weekly basis at present to
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