The usage of "operator" documented in the wiki is the opposite of the standard usage, at least in the food service business (I once worked for a food broker). The standard usage would be to say that a restaurant's name is "Smithville Waffle House", for instance, it is a franchise of "Waffle House", and it is operated by "XYZ Food Services". The franchise name is the one you would most likely render on a map. The average consumer would have no reason to be interested in the operator's name unless they needed to talk to management about a problem of some sort.
-------Original Email------- Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] Tag name vs operator >From :mailto:deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com Date :Mon Jul 12 16:31:18 America/Chicago 2010 On 13 July 2010 07:25, Brad Neuhauser <brad.neuhau...@gmail.com> wrote: > Side note: John, Do you seriously check health certificates before > tagging restaurants? I don't usually tag name, just operator, I just mentioned that to point out the name is easy to locate if people did want to tag it. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
